• CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 hours ago

    Not really familiar with the CFP on that level. In what way doesn’t it make sense?

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      20 hours ago

      If Austria wants to fish in Danish waters, they can do so, freely. If Denmark wants to fell Austrian trees or mine Austrian mountains, they can’t.

      Then, aside from that, the quotas are insane: We’re constantly scraping the bottom of the barrel, barely preventing fish from dying out. Allowing stocks to recover even a bit would allow us to pull more out of the waters while simultaneously having the stocks recover even more and increase quotas again until fish again are the abundant resource they once were before literal centuries of overfishing. Would take a couple of years, maybe a handful, of reduced quotas to a complete moratorium, depending on area and species. It’s a thing we can absolutely afford to do: Some reduction in consumption, some increase in imports, some money spent on mothballing ships and people’s jobs for a while, gigantic payoff.