Recent reports of fishery collapse paint a gloomy picture of the ocean's future; perhaps 100% of fisheries from the world's large marine ecosystems (LMEs) will be collapsed in just 40 years. While poor fisheries governance is now widely regarded as the cause, bioeconomic theory and anecdotal evidence suggest that rights-based...
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on salmon fishery governance in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest U.S. Here the physical and ecological effects of climate change are expected to be significant and to include alterations in freshwater and marine aquatic habitat that will affect the...
About 8000 fishers are operating today in the Lake Nasser’s fishery (Egypt) and the annual official landing varies between 12,000 and 15,000 tons. Despite this relatively modest importance, the Egyptian authority decided to embark in a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s. The objective of the...