Libertarians are underwhelmed by media claims that stone crab “season”
protects the stone crab population. The media always fail to
mention the only real solutions: private property rights in waterways, aquaculture,
aqua-farming, and free-market environmentalism. As usual the media
always call for government intervention. As the libertarians say, the
purpose of government is to provide service, and the purpose of the media
is to provide Vaseline. The media prove that government schools create
statists.
Stone crab season is a reminder of the hardship
that bureaucracy imposes upon stone crabs and those who love them (to eat).
Stone crab “season” is a creation of bureaucrats who subvert private property
rights under water in favor of trademark socialism: government ownership
of waterways with periodic unavailability and rationing. Thank goodness the
government isn't involved in most farmlands, foods and goods, or the results
would be similar: Soviet style rationing.
The solution is property rights in crab habitats.
A proposal for specialty license plates touts the libertarian solution to
save Florida’s waterways: http://rexcurry.net/tageverglades6b.jpg Also see http://rexcurry.net/comindex.html
Stone crab habitats should be privatized. Private
property and aquaculture farming would produce bigger and better stone crab
claws all year round. Indeed, the abundance and prosperity that inures
to land farming, would inure to all seafood, not just stone crabs.