It's unfortunate that you view ED as you do, but you are certainly entitled to your opinion.  

ED assisted me and a small group of Hawaii residents concerned about the blatant rape of lobster resources in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.  I drafted the plan leading to the creation of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve is December 2000 that stopped the commercial rape of the area.  

Without the assistance of ED, the rape of lobster and other marine resources in the area would have gone on.  So much for rules under MSA.  

Commodity-based money and markets in its earliest known form originated between 4500 BC and 4000 BC.  In 1864, in the United States used standard instruments on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), the world's oldest futures and options exchange.  

Here is a good research paper specifically on fish as a commodity: https://maritimestudiesjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40152-014-0014-5