What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Brett Tolley The 4th generation in a line of New England fishermen, Brett Tolley started out helping farmers struggle to co-exist with industrial agriculture, because his father had discouraged him from becoming a fisherman. But seeing consolidation doing the same things to fishermen that it has to farmers, he came back to fisheries as an activist. Catch shares, the current approach used to regulate commercial fishing, is not preserving fish stocks as intended and is making it impossible for local fishing communities to survive. Catch shares have turned the right to fish into a trade able commodity that belongs increasingly to large fishing fleets and seafood processing companies. Brett describes why, when and how catch shares were introduced and their ramifications for owners of small boats.