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- All member countries who have ratified our treaty will impose a tax on their fishermen
- This amount of this tax 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 tax as we propose are proposing would significantly contribute to solving the overfishing problem. We The tax is not only propose the tax as a revenue-generating device, but also as a mechanism for covering paying the ecological and societal cost of taking each environmental cost associated with taking a fish out of the ocean.
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