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Who owns the fish in the sea?

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The High Court in the UK  has ruled in favour of redistributing some fishing rights from big producers to small-scale fishermen, a small victory for the 'little Guy' but this poses the Question:  Who owns the fish in the sea? There is a more fundamental issue at stake in the legal battles surrounding fishing subsidies & quota allocation and that is in the legal question: Who owns Nature? Do we all own nature? Does the state own nature? Has the state the right to sell nature? Should we all share in the fruits of nature? Is there a difference between owning the fruits of our labour as to opposed to the gifts of nature? How can we make a economic system that can simply reflect the difference between the free gifts of nature and that which we make ourselves? What is nature Many of the large fishing companies have been auguring a legal case that state given fishing quotas they have acquired are ‘their property’ and not the governments, so they must b...