Feasible sustainable fisheries development is dependent on a range of political, social, economic and ecological factors, but to date most debate informing fisheries management and fisheries development policy in the Pacific has tended to address only one or two of these factors in isolation from the others. For example, Pacific...
Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) abalone fishing in South Africa has grown to such an extent that the legal total allowable catch has been progressively reduced from 640 tons in 1995, to a proposed zero for 2008. We present research on the socio-economics of the IUU abalone fishery and the...
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) of 2006 (Public Law
109-479) amends the Moratorium Protection Act (Public Law 104_43) requiring the United States (US) to take
actions to address illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing and bycatch of protected living marine resources on the high seas and...
The European Union ranks third worldwide in terms of fishing power, with 5.7 million tonnes landed in 2006 and a fishing fleet active in every ocean. It is also the leading importer of fish (worth some ¬20 billion in 2006). That is why the European Commission considers that the European...
It has been established that the path of a fishery over time, i.e. stocks, fleets, effort and profits, depends inter alia on the enforcement of the fisheries management rules in place. It has further been established that optimal enforcement of fisheries management rules depends inter alia on the shadow value...
When fishers can avoid detection and/or sanctions for violating fisheries management rules, the fisheries enforcement problem becomes substantially more complicated. A number of issues immediately pop up. First, the effectiveness of enforcement effort is reduced. This, ceteris paribus, reduces the optimal enforcement effort. Second, the impact on the fishery of...
New Zealands quota management system is based on transferable
harvesting rights operating within regulated allowable harvest limits. The
system has evolved since its implementation in 1986. One particular
challenge has been the design of mechanisms to encourage the balancing of
catch against quota. A model is developed for a target...
The Pacific Salmon Treaty was established by Canada and the United States
to secure sustainability of salmon harvests within the Pacific Northwest. Renewed
in June 1999, the treaty functions to legitimize and empower the Pacific Salmon
Commission as the agent of fishery sustainability. The Pacific Salmon
Commission serves as a...
This pamphlet attempts to identify and describe the various administrative permits required for a salmon ranch operation in Oregon. It also describes the administrative procedures by which agencies make their decisions. Lastly, it includes representative samples of application forms, copies of particularly significant legislation and regulations, and information about state...