Changes to New Zealands fisheries legislation provides for devolution of certain function duties and powers of the central government agency to the industry. Such a framework is creating considerable difficulty for decision-makers when developing implementation strategies. This paper reviews the innovations and approaches being taken to implement one of the...
Though the commercial value per pound of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) is greater than that of most target species in trawl fisheries off Alaska, halibut retention is prohibited for trawlers and individual groundfish target trawl fisheries are subject to closure if they attain either their seasonal or annual limit of...
Shetland is currently pioneering two innovations in fisheries management. The Shetland Regulating Order and the Community Fish Quota scheme are both certainly innovative, perhaps radical and may possibly become a model for other areas.
The Shetland Islands are often described as remote, barren and peripheral. From a fisheries perspective, however,...
Collaborative research initiatives between New Zealand’s fisheries management agencies and commercial fisher organisations are commonplace. This can be attributed to a combination of fisheries management institutions and processes that on the one hand create incentives for commercial fishers to take increasing responsibility for fisheries research and on the other hand...
The positive relationship between innovation and an unusually high concentration of ownership is considered in relation to the Exmouth Gulf Limited Entry Prawn Fishery. Innovation has lead to the adoption of improved harvesting practices and the investigation of the potential for stock enhancement. Experiences in this fishery are consistent with...
The evolution of the Quota Management System of fisheries management in New Zealand has been accompanied by four innovations in the specific mechanisms used by government to collect revenue from commercial fishers and quota owners. These are: the introduction of resource rentals, the removal of resource rentals, the introduction of...
This historical survey sweeps across a thousand years, divided into five very unequal stages. Over most of the stages property in tide-water fisheries was lost. Fishers lost control of the fishstock and of the markets they served. Governments responded with fishing regulations, which have served as a basis for regaining...
Two fishery management innovations developed in New Zealand are described. The first is a programme of “self-monitoring” of the catch through the biological sampling by the skipper or a crew member on the vessel. The intent of this programme is to take a small sample of many units of effort...
This paper examines the ability of a new policy to reduce bycatch of red snapper by the shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico: Fractional License as proposed by Townsend. The policy is evaluated both theoretically and using a simulation model.
The international institutional context for fishery management in the Mediterranean is changing due to the evolution of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and the review of the Common Fisheries Policy due in 2002. This changing context offers an ideal opportunity to re-consider the fundamental fishery management strategy. It...