The Australian coral reef fin-fish fishery (CRFFF) on the Great Barrier Reef has been managed under ITQs since 2004. A large number of different reef species (>155) are covered by the management plan, but the primary species in terms of value and volume landed are coral trout and red throat...
In July 2011 the European Commission acknowledged that "Our current system is not working in favour of sustainability. Too many fleet segments live on low profits, depend on subsidies for survival. 'Business as usual' is not an option".
Indeed, the reform of the policy "must not be yet another piecemeal,...
Changes in ownership of limited entry permits by “local” residents of the region where a fishery occurs
may have significant economic and social implications for fishery-dependent regions. This paper
examines changes in local permit ownership in Alaska salmon fisheries, for which a long-term decline in
rural local permit ownership is...
ITQ introduction has had several effects on fisheries in terms of, for
example, changes in the composition of the fishing fleet and fishing
efficiency gains. After ITQ introduction in the Tasmanian rock lobster
industry in 1998, an increasing number of fishers have become dependent
on quota leasing to catch fish...
While right-based managements have often been encouraged as effective
management tools, few studies presented an empirical analysis on the
effects of those systems. This paper focuses on a special form of Territorial
Use Rights Fisheries called an income pooling system, and examines the
effects of the system empirically. Income pooling...
With a national policy on catch shares in progress in the United States and
increasing use of transferable fishing rights in fisheries worldwide, it is
important to understand how the markets created by these programs
function in the real world. This paper presents information collected from
interviews with Florida spiny...
In 1996, the US New England Fishery Management Council formed a
technical team (PDT) to develop a new plan for Atlantic Herring (Clupea
harengus harengus). The inshore stock was close to fully exploited while
the offshore stock was underexploited. There were few full-time herring
harvesters and very few processors. Fresh...
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...
Overcapacity is probably the most fundamental challenge to fisheries management as it can lead to both overfishing and to low profitability. Most of the Norwegian fisheries have limited entry, through the use of annual permits (coastal fleet) and licences (ocean going fleet) in combination with individual vessel quotas (IVQ). Limited...