The apparent complexity of these schemes serve to insulate them from common sense. So investors can jump, figuring that other people must’ve figured out all the details.
Fisheries management is conceptually pretty simple. You can “tax” the little fishies only so much before their productivity declines, and if you crash the fishery entirely, hardly anyone will get to fish. I kinda wish similar caps were in place and widely understood for the human version. I know theres a whole lot of wiggle room in the concept of “sustainable”. But we need to start someplace…