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The tax would be administered internationally by the United Nations, provided for by the addition to the treaty that we propose. Only member countries would collect the tax, which eliminates the issue of taxation without representation. The revenue of the tax would then be used to fund other aspects of our plan, like encouraging fishermen to switch to more environmentally sound methods of fishing. Countries who have signed the treaty are bound by it to fish sustainably in their own waters, and a tax is just another way for them to enforce this. Non-member countries are prohibited from being involved in fish trade with member countries, so they too will be affected by the tax.
In Summary
#All member countries who have ratified our treaty will impose a tax on their fishermen
#This amount of this tax (determined by biologists and economists based on population and ecological data on the oceans) will be region and population specific: higher if fish are caught from populations that are more depleted and lower if fish are from less depleted stocks
#The tax will be determined by an international group of biologists and economists who will have access to global data collected through the most advanced and accurate methods possible
#The revenue from the tax will go to efforts to convert fishermen to more environmentally friendly methods, developing better data collection technologies, and generally funding other parts of the process to save the ocean.
The The results of the tax as we propose would significantly contribute to solving the overfishing problem. We not only value propose the tax as a revenue-generating device, but also as a mechanism for covering the ecological and societal cost of taking each fish out of the ocean.
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