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Put up to four markets on the same ruler. The shapes do most of the explaining.

Market 1 Market 2 Market 3 Market 4

Water abstraction rights 50 Demanding A licence valuable because of scarcity — scarcity set by the same regulator that can revoke it.
Fishing quota 53 Tough A right carved out of a public resource and held by very few: closed to outsiders, exposed to policy.

	Water abstraction rights	Fishing quota
Exit difficulty	5	4
Volatility	2	3
Leverage	1	2
Carry cost	2	2
Fraud risk	1	1
Protection gap	4	4
Barrier to entry	5	5
Expertise needed	4	4
Difficulty	50 Demanding	53 Tough
In a sentence	Permission to take water from a river or aquifer — a licence, not a possession, and increasingly the binding constraint on building anything.	The right to catch a tonne of a named species in a named area — created by law, concentrated in remarkably few hands, and worth more than the boats.
Unit	Cubic metres per year, with daily and hourly limits	Fixed Quota Allocation units, converted to tonnes annually
Smallest realistic trade	A licence or a share of one, transferred with regulatory consent	Units traded between vessel owners and producer organisations
Settlement	Regulator approval and variation of the licence	Transfer recorded by the fisheries authority

The fingerprint measures how demanding a market is to take part in. It is not a rating or a recommendation.