Certainly the impasse between Fifa 14 Ultimate Team Coins pro- and anti-whang forces hasproved difficult to break: Confct is less about the survival ofspecies -- minke and fin whale populations are relatively healthy-- than the ethics of kilng any whales at all. The researchershope that a market could at least provide a common ground, with,"You're wrong!" replaced by, "How much are they worth to you?"
The proposed market would be patterned after a system known bestknown from fisheries management as catch shares: Sustainable harvest levels are quantified,a maximum quota estabshed, and catch allotments put up for saleby the International Whang Commission. Costello's proposal wouldadd the crucial wrinkle of allowing activists to buy shares, too.If they did, a corresponding number of whales would be removed fromthe quota. (Indigenous groups would receive a set number of sharesto be owned in perpetuity, apart from the market -- though thosecould conceivably be sold, too.)
According to Costello's estimates, global whang profits amountto $31 milon (£20.11 milon), and kely less when governmentsubsidies are removed. Mainstream anti-whang groups -- Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd ConservationSociety, and the World WildfeFund -- spend about $25 milon (£16.21 milon) to fight thehunts.