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  • Co-management and Beyond: The British Columbia Experience

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    James, Michelle
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    In British Columbia “co-management agreements” are improving the sustainable management of many commercial fisheries. While some fisheries have fairly extensive co-management agreements which outline cost recovery, joint and separate roles and responsibilities for enforcement, science, and management, most do not. There are a number of important factors which have limited...
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    resources. Dr. A. Scott (2000) identified four essential characteristics of fisheries property rights as

  • Avoiding One Fishermen - A Case of Namibia

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    Nashandi, Wilbard
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    The open access nature of fisheries resources had caused application of excessive fishing effort to most World fisheries. Proper management of fisheries resources is vital for sustainability and its safe future utilisation. Most attempts to salvage fisheries resources had so far succeeded but have also created one or more problems....
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    Fisheries Technical Paper 404/1. Manning P. (2000). Review of the Distributive Aspects of Namibia’s

  • The Potential for Insurance to Mediate Economic Risks in Marine Fisheries

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    Mumford, John, Leach, Adrian, Levontin, Polina, and Kell, Laurence
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    In agriculture there has been a long history of using a levy or an insurance premium to create mutual funds to mediate economic risks to growers due to environmental variability and quarantine pests. In the United States the federal government, through the USDA, continues to underwrite funds (collected by private...
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    first is a theoretical application of insurance theory by Donald Ludwig and the second is a more

  • Effects of Rights-Based Management on Processors' Supply: An Application to the Alaska Pollock Fishery

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    Fell, Harrison
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    Economists have generated numerous studies analyzing how a move to rights-based fishery management from open-access management affects fish harvesters' behavior. Conversely, the impacts that such a change in management can have on fish processors has received relatively little attention. This paper presents a simple two-product processor supply model to show...
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    behavior in the processing sector through greater price responsiveness. REFERENCES [1] Gordon, H. Scott

  • Rate of Profit Return with ITQs: Fishing for Optimality

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    Zhang, Meng, Batstone, Chris, and Sharp, Basil
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    The year 1990 saw the introduction of individual transferable quota rights to the NZ rock lobster fishery. This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of profitability in five different quota management areas over the period 1990-2001. The bio-economic model of an optimal fishery provides the basis for econometric analysis....
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    use (pp.270- 272). NY: Harper & Row, Publishers. Munro, G.R., and Scott, A.D. (1985). The

  • Apprenticeship and Conservation Incentives

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    Alden, Robin and Brewer, Jennifer F.
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    Apprentice programs offer a method to encourage responsible individual behavior by laying the foundation for successful collective property rights. Apprenticeship has three purposes: to restrict the rate of entry, to affect the quality of the participant, and to create the conditions for collective action for sustainability. Apprenticeship could be an...
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    Assessment and Management, New York: Wiley, 1978. Ludwig, Donald, Ray Hilborn, and Carl Walters

  • The Role of Coasian Bargaining in Efficient Fisheries Management

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    Townsend, Ralph E.
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    unowned resources. Scott (1955) immediately identified property rights as the theoretical solution to