A serious impediment blocks advancement of individual transferable quota (ITQ) policy in the United States, particularly in North Pacific fisheries being considered for ITQ management. The traditional ITQ design, that allocates rights to only the harvesting sector, unintentionally expropriates wealth/property interests from the co-dependent-processing sector. This regulatory expropriation is a...
Les changements intervenus dans le secteur des pêches au cours des deux dernières décennies rendent nécessaires une réévaluation de la validité des approches conventionnelles du développement et de l'aménagement des pêches. En effet, de nombreux projets de développement continuent à insister sur l'utilisation de bateaux et d'engins de pêche améliorés,...
The status of fisheries resources on coastal and offshore areas is getting worse in Taiwan. Thus, to establish a fishery resources management system has become the main task among stakeholders. In this study, we would like to examine the feasibility of imposing the community-based co-management system and setting closed fishing...
As the British Columbia salmon fishery developed, the Canadian government, with constitutional responsibility for the resource, faced a number of critical turning points in management policy. In early years, partly for expediency, the allocation of fishing privileges often resulted in efficient levels of effort but little attempt was made to...
Local wisdom-based fisheries resource management had been done by Gangga sub district community since long time ago until 1965 in form of sawen, a traditional ritual conducted by wektu telu Moslems. In 1966 - 1999 the ritual disappeared because of changes of people's minds and economic-politic situation. In year 2000...
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that economic institutions matter, i.e., that different rules of trade present different incentives for bidding, asking and trading in new markets, and that these different incentives lead to different price discovery patterns which yield materially different outcomes. In a laboratory tradable fishing...
The auction system is rather rare in the world fisheries. During this three-year period, 2001-2003, fish quotas in the RFE and the North (Barents Sea) were auctioned off, with the by far largest volumes in the RFE. The main purpose of auctioning quotas for fish and marine invertebrates was to...