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Bill: Commerical Fishing Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakania Republican Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2406
Description[?]:
| It should be unregulated because we should take no part in regulating this industry. If they want to kill off the fish, then so be it but they won't have an industry if they kill them all. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Commercial fishing regulation.
Old value:: The government establishes fishing quotas.
Current: There are no limits on the amount of fish that may be caught.
Proposed: There are no limits on the amount of fish that may be caught.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:26:50, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Union of Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Commerical Fishing Act |
| Message | Save the fish! Argh! Sorry, had a Greenpeace moment. Seriously, though, fishing quotas are the only way to maintain fish numbers and diversity. |
| Date | 21:49:43, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Jakania Republican Party | To | Debating the Commerical Fishing Act |
| Message | No its not... If commerical fishermen want to keep fishing for profit, they will conserve or they won't have any jobs. Besides we want as little government regulation on everything. |
| Date | 22:18:06, May 18, 2007 CET | From | Jakania Republican Party | To | Debating the Commerical Fishing Act |
| Message | Why is it the only way to protect diversity and species? Many organizations do raise awareness like Greenpeace. Why is it that everything needs to be regulated to protect something and the government has to do it. Well, it doesn't and government is unreliable as a liar. Like civilized people, Greenpeace should go talk to the fishermen and work it out instead of crying to the government. Government doesn't need to back this up with force. |
| Date | 15:33:06, May 19, 2007 CET | From | Union of Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Commerical Fishing Act |
| Message | Fishermen are all in competition with one another, and so you can't expect them all to behave in a responsible way. If there are fish there, you can guarantee someone's going to catch them, even if it does result in localised extinction, because they won't be willing to pass up the opportunity. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 16 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 43 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 41 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein |