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Regulation Of Commercial Salmon Fisherman: A Case Of Confused Objectives, Ralph W. Johnson
Regulation Of Commercial Salmon Fisherman: A Case Of Confused Objectives, Ralph W. Johnson
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To be blunt, the salmon boat fisherman is as obsolete as the buffalo hunter. The "secret'"—traps and weirs; they make salmon catching absurdly easy and can be operated at 1/20 to 1/30 the boat-catching costs. Hunting for salmon on the high seas is like chasing bees in a meadow. Why not wait until the bees return to their hive, or until the salmon return to their spawning stream? Hunting for salmon with boats makes economic sense as a temporary palliative to an unemployment problem; it makes economic nonsense as a permanent industry in a competitive society in a …
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson
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Is the principle of free navigation, as applied to international rivers, relevant to present-day political and economic reality? Ordinarily, the first thing to be done in an article such as this is to define the principal term, i.e., "free navigation," or "navigational freedom." In this case it is impossible to give a single definition. The term, idea, concept, or rationale is a chameleon, changing its meaning from place to place and from time to time. A number of the following pages will be devoted to tracing these various meanings and showing the confusion that arises from their existence. Briefly, there …