Sentences with phrase «overall catch quota»
One form of catch shares is «individual transferable quotas» (ITQs), which give individual fishermen ownership rights stake in a set percentage of a fishery's overall catch quota.
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The European Commission proposed an overall cut in quotas for deep sea fishing in the northeast Atlantic for the next two years, but environmental groups said it should have reduced some catch limits to zero to allow stocks to recover
Whereas a given quota could be sold to someone else, the overall total catch could not change.