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...
A survey was conducted to create a comprehensive list of marine protected areas (MPAs) in Japan. There
exist more than 1,000 fishery cooperatives in Japan, and many of them have established no-take zones for
many years. Such zones are usually not reported to the government and, therefore, the complete picture...