"... unregulated access to common property fishery
resources leads to biologic and economic depletion of stocks...there
is a need for regulations to limit fishing efforts or access... .
Limited entry is primarily a method of allocating revenue to the participants
in a fishery to improve their individual economic performance and
that of the entire fishery... . Entry can be limited directly by establishing
a limit to the number of licenses issued... . Limited entry must be
combined with limits on each individual's catch... ."
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"...The need to control entry into the Huntington
Bay hard clam fishery is...recommended...to sustain harvests over
a longer period, while maintaining a higher standing stock of clams.
Unlimited entry into this fishery contributed to a rapid and dramatic
decline in landings after the production peaked during the period
from 1961-1963... . The Town of Huntington should freeze the number
of commercial shellfish permits... ."
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"...New York State's unique commercial and fishing
opportunities are threatened by the overharvesting... . Pressure will
only increase on this diminishing resource unless such harvesting
is at least limited to present licensees... ."
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"...Fishing effort needs to be stabilized and
controlled to ensure both the biological and the social/economic sustainability
of commercial fisheries... . Unregulated increases in fishing effort
threaten the long term sustainability of marine fisheries. Since nearly
all the region's marine fish stock are currently overexploited...regional
increases in capitalization and fishing effort are inconsistent with
assuring sustainability of fish stock... . Biological sustainability
of fish stocks can be, and for many species is being, addressed through
fisheries management programs which actively intervene in fisheries
harvest to achieve sustainable yield... . The future of New York's
and the region's marine fisheries depends upon the effective development
and implementation of marine fisheries management actions... ."
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