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This article is about Japan's policy to impose a quota on US rice. US-produced rice is known for its exceedingly cheap price, and Japan is imposing quota to protect its domestic producers from the competition.

A fin whale being brought onto land. Photo: Árni Sæberg Icelandic whaling company Hvalur hf. has caught its full annual quota of fin whales for the first time ever since the quota system was put in place. The hunting season drew to a close yesterday.

Yo, this diigo group belongs to our former teacher. The newbie has no access I suppose, cause he created his own account when started the course this year.

I think this group is still allowed though, he just posted to the pamoja page the link to this page.

Australia did not get as much access to the US market for sugar under a new Pacific trade deal as it wanted but secured benefits for local industries.

This article suggests how individual quotas were introduced due to the overfishing in the sea, which were aimed to better the situations. The individual quotas awarded the fisherman the right to catch a certain percentage of the total annual allowable catch. However, these tradable quotas caused great economical and ecological harm as big cooperations bought a majority of the shares. The article shows the different incentives taken by citizens and individual fishing operators and their associations to solve this problem.