or lease his land, buy the seed, then pray to the weather gods.. Then and only then can he harvest the crop with a tractor. Whereas these free riders who savage the worlds oceans simply turn up with a tractor and reap the harvest. They plant nothing, pay off some cash hungry politicians, then move on to better pastures with their tractor. 3 months ago Anthony Nolan Ruminant (logged in via email @hotmail.com) The author of this article shows a touching faith in the state's capacity to make good or even adequate policy when it comes to resource exploitation. For mine, as a conservationist, I'd be inclined towards very large protective margins for breeding stock of all those species in the nominated ecosystem. In other words we'd be best with very big margins for error. Besides this there is no rule of law or the state that says that any resource exploitation policy must be based on 'evidence' when the evidential base off which we are working is extremely low. 3 months ago Trevor S Jack of all Trades (logged in via email @hotmail.com) Then were are the fish we eat to come from ? We already rape the Seas of other nations, importing 70% of our fish. I would 'err on the side of not killing off the ecosystems of other nations and realise we need to UP the fishing quotas and re-open closed fisheries. Tricky to do ? welcome to the real world of an ever increasing population