Quizlet

Tragedy of the Commons Lab

(5 points)

Procedures:

1. Get into a group of 4 students.

2. Each group starts with 16 fish (m&m’s)

3. YOU CAN’T TALK DURING THE GAME!

3. You will “fish” with 2 straws. (Figure out how to do it!)

4. Each fish has a “current market value” of $5.00 per fish.

5. Each student MUST catch one fish per season in order to stay in

business; it is up to you to decide how many, beyond the required one you

want to catch.

6. Each fishing season will last 20 seconds.

Data: Complete the following

|Fisherperson |Year 1 |Year 2 |Year 3 |Year 4 | |

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| | | | | |Total for Group |

|Total Fish Harvest | | | | | |

|Total Income | | | | | |

Background Information:

One cause of environmental degradation is the overuse of common-property resources, which are owned by no one but are available to all users free of charge. Most are potentially renewable. Examples include clean air, the open ocean and its fish, migratory birds, Antarctica, gases of the lower atmosphere, the ozone content of the stratosphere, and space. In 1968, biologist Garrett Harden called the...