In 2010, the New England Groundfish fishery adopted a sector-based management plan, wherein self-identifying groups of harvesters are allocated their collective total share of the harvest of each species as a group right, that they may manage in any way they wish. This means a single fishery with a single...
Sector allocation catch share system is where a share of total fishing quota is allocated to a group of fishermen called sector. Whether or not to join a sector is voluntary, and as such there are sector members and non-members coexisting in the same fishery, where the latter will remain...
The New England Multispecies (groundfish) fishery is about to implement
the catch share management system, where self-identified groups of
harvesters called sectors receive quota allocations of total allowable catch
(TAC) proportional to the harvest history of their members. Joining a
sector is voluntary, thus there will be both sector members...
A new type of fisheries management approach termed catch share is set to
be implemented in the US Northeast groundfish fisheries in May 2010.
This approach gives a group of harvesters, called a sector, a portion of the
TAC to manage independently - a hybrid of co-management and individual
quota....
In many fisheries, harvesters of different scales, different gears, or on
different sides of political boundaries crossed by a single stock are
effectively managed separately. The New England Multispecies
(groundfish) fishery is about to dramatically expand the number of
management systems in place concurrently, by allocating portions of the
total...
It is often claimed that rural households, especially the poor, rely on natural resources to cope with risks. What is less understood is its extent and whether harvesting natural resources is a strategy to cope
with particular types of risks. To investigate this question, this paper utilizes survey data of...