I read an article called "Ruling on Longline Fishing Aids Turtles". This article was a great example of how people can avoid tragedy of the commons by speaking up for the ones who can't and compromising. It was talking about how longline fishermen would sometimes catch turtles instead of fish in this process and how many would die because of lack of oxygen. So they came to an agrement with the environmentalist groups and they agred that the fishmen are to limit their use of longline fishing. It dosent go into details by how much but something is better then nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/science/earth/19turtle.html?_r=1&ref=earth
It is nice to know that a community/government has gotten together to help save these turtles. I think that if everyone acted like that to save other animals our bidiversity would not be in so much danger.
ReplyDeleteI think this article was interesting. I like the fact that the fisherman spoke for the turtles. I think that we should take a lesson from him and stand up and fight for the one who can't fight for themselves.
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