Download or read book Sharing in the Catch Or Cashing in the Share Social Impacts of Individual Transferable Quotas and the South East Fishery written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Case Studies on the Allocation of Transferable Quota Rights in Fisheries written by Ross Shotton and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of twenty-three studies looking at the UK, The Netherlands, Iceland, Canada, New Zealand, United States, Australia, Alaska and Chile.
Download or read book Sharing the Fish written by Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most U.S. fish stocks are fully or over-exploited, and harvesting in many fisheries far exceeds sustainable levels. The individual fishing quota (IFQ) is a relatively new instrument under which harvesting privileges are allocated to individual fishermen--innovative yet controversial for its feared effect on fishing communities and individual fishermen. Based on testimony from fishermen, regulators, environmentalists, and others, Sharing the Fish explores how IFQs might address the serious social, economic, and biologic issues raised by depleted fish stocks. In their approach to a national policy on IFQs, the panel makes direct recommendations to Congress, the Secretary of Commerce, the National Marine Fisheries Service, regional fishery management councils, state authorities, and others. This book provides definitions and examples, reviews legislation and regulations, and includes lessons learned from fisheries on the U.S. East Coast and in Alaska, and in Iceland, New Zealand, and other nations. The committee discusses the public trust doctrine, management of common-pool resources, alternative and complementary approaches to the IFQ, and more. Sharing the Fish provides straightforward answers that will be important to fishery policymakers and regulators, natural resource economists, fishery managers, environmental advocates, and concerned fishermen and their communities.
Download or read book Structural Change in Fisheries Dealing with the Human Dimension written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings analyses the social issues and policy challenges that arise from fisheries adjustment policies, and how OECD member countries are meeting those challenges.
Download or read book Just a Fisherman s Wife written by Jane Dowling and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique exposé of women in family businesses in the Australian commercial fishing industry and explores their visibility, contributions, barriers and opportunities for participation, and knowledge. Recognising the need to move beyond an exploration of women’s ‘roles,’ this book applies a detailed, well articulated and sophisticated feminist post structural approach which explores women’s identity, power/knowledge and positioning in relation to the current industry climate, in the context of discourses of ‘crisis’ and ‘sustainability.’ This is particularly pertinent with climate change looming as the next industry ‘crisis.’ As such, this book has significant interdisciplinary appeal, and will benefit feminist, gender, natural resource management and fisheries scholars and policy makers. Ultimately, it is hoped that this book will have a substantial impact on industry women in both Australia and elsewhere, and reduce their marginalisation; increase awareness about their contributions; and result in greater opportunities to voice their unique knowledge on social issues with a view to enhancing industry sustainability.
Download or read book Good Governance Scale and Power written by Liza Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet’s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis. This book examines the discourse and practice of ‘good governance’ in the context of fisheries management. It starts by examining the ‘crisis’ of fisheries in the North Sea, caused primarily by overfishing and failure of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy. It then goes on to analyse reforms to this policy enacted and planned between 2002 and 2013, and the proposition that collapse of fish stocks could occur as a result of deficiencies in new governing arrangements, i.e. failure to apply ‘principles of good governance’. The book argues that impediments to good governance practice in fisheries are not merely the result of implementation deficits, but that they constitute a more systematic failure. Governance theory addresses issues of power, but it does not recognise the many important spatially contingent and relational forms of power that are exercised in actual governing practice. For example, it frequently overlooks spatial practices and strategies, such as ‘scale jumping, ‘rescaling’ and the discursive redrawing of governing boundaries. This book exposes some of these spatial power relationships, showing that the presence of such relationships has implications for accountability and effective policymaking. In sum, this book explores some of the ways in which we might better understand governance practice using theories of scale and relational concepts of power, and in the process it offers a critique and rethinking of governance theory. These reflections are made on the basis of an in-depth case study of the attempted pursuit of ‘good governance’ in the European Union via institutional reforms, focusing particularly on the thorny and fascinating case of North Sea fisheries management.
Download or read book Managing Fishing Capacity written by Stephen Cunningham and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2001 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document provides a background to the need for managing fishing capacity and a review of technical and policy issues that arise in doing so. A summary of recommendations is included.
Download or read book Institutional Change for Sustainable Development written by Robin Connor and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . this book makes an interesting and worthwhile contribution to the ever-expanding body of literature on sustainable development and therefore is to be recommended. Karen Scott, Journal of Environmental Law . . . this is an essential text for the study of sustainability and institutional change, an invaluable professional development text for the practitioner, and a text to ponder slowly in all its complexities for an academic study of sustainability. Kate Crowley, Australian Journal of Environmental Management Does the road to sustainable development run through institutional reform or, better yet, institutional learning? In this well-argued book, Robin Connor and Stephen Dovers draw on a range of case studies to demonstrate the critical role that institutions play in determining the course of human environment relations. Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara, US Connor and Dovers correctly argue that achieving sustainability is a long-term process. In this context, they analyze broad institutional innovations toward sustainability to date from Europe to New Zealand, from sustainability councils to property rights to suggest how the historical process might be improved and accelerated. This is among the most constructive efforts I have read. Richard B. Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, US It is clear that the transition to ecologically sustainable patterns of development requires significant institutional change, yet we face a paradox. Although institutions are the primary means of driving reform, they are themselves a root cause of unsustainable development and a barrier to positive change. This volume moves beyond the current debate by advancing our understanding of the nature of institutional change, the features of more appropriate institutional settings, and the manner in which change can be enabled. Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and policy change: environmental policy in the EU; New Zealand s landmark Resource Management Act; strategic environmental assessment; emerging National Councils for Sustainable Development; and transformative property rights instruments. From these explorations, key principles for institutional change are identified, including the institutional accommodation of a sustainability discourse, the interdependence of normative and institutional change; reiteration and learning; integration in policy and practice; subsidiarity; and legal change. Institutional Change for Sustainable Development will be of interest to researchers, policymakers and practitioners concerned with sustainability, resource management and environmental policy.
Download or read book Individual Transferable Quotas written by R. Quentin Grafton and published by Department of Economics, University of Ottawa = Dép. de science économique, Université d'Ottawa. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Individual Quotas in Fisheries Management written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD. This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Individual Quota Management in Fisheries written by Gary R. Morgan and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of fisheries by catch quotas has a long history in a number of areas and has been probably the most common method of controlling exploitation of fish stocks. However, in recent years, the technique of managing by global Total Allowable Catches (TACs) has not been able to address the rapid improvements in technology of harvesting and has therefore not generally been successful in limiting fleet capacity. This, combined with practical difficulties of monitoring and enforcing TACs, has resulted in a poor record in achieving fish stock sustainability and in optimizing the economic performance of fisheries. However, recent advances in and adoption of the techniques of managing by Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), which provide greater incentives for sustaining and optimising economic performance of fisheries, have re-focused attention on quota management. The increasing interest in ITQ management has, however, not been matched by the availability of a theoretical framework for quota management which considers the various biological, economic and financial influences as part of an integrated management system. This paper is the first of a projected series which examines not only this theoretical basis of quota (particularly ITQ) management as an integrated system but also draws on practical experiences in various parts of the world to provide guidance for agencies examining the issue of quota management in fisheries. The present paper covers the biological, economic and financial issues which need to be considered in setting the Total Allowable Catch and in allocating that TAC both between participants in the fishery and between those participants and the regulatory agency. Later papers will address the issues of administration of the quota management system, compliance and surveillance issues and secondary markets for quotas.
Download or read book Individual Transferable Quotas in Theory and Practice written by Ragnar Arnason and published by Almenna bókafélagið. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers originally presented at an international conference on Individual Transferable Quotas, ITQs, held in Reykjavik in November of 1998. In this book, eleven authors, including Anthony Scott, the pioneer in the economies of fisheries, and Phillip Major, a former administrator of the New Zealand ITQ system, explore the theory and practice of ITQs. They discuss possible future extensions of ITQs, their political acceptability, the approach known as Free Market Environmentalism, the evolution and performance of systems of ITQs in New Zealand and Iceland, advances in the technology necessary to husband marine resources, the possibility of self-management in fisheries, the demand for resource rentals, and other aspects of ITQ systems.
Download or read book Analyzing the Resource Impact of Fisheries Subsidies A Matrix Approach written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2004 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fish Futures written by Barry Kaufmann and published by Csiro. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish stock depletion and gross overcapacity of fishing fleets worldwide has promoted fisheries agencies to reconsider their approaches to the management of commercial fisheries. The use of individual transferable catch quotas is becoming increasingly popular as a means of forestalling or reversing this trend. However, there are many obstacles to successful implementation of this quota management approach, including the initial quota allocation to fishers and the prevention of 'quota busting' and fish discarding actions that threaten the sustainability of the fish stocks and seriously undermine public and fishing industry confidence in the management system. The book draws together the growing body of practical experiences of quota systems both in Australia and internationally with the aim of helping fisheries managers, fishers and others take informed decisions on how to make quota systems work in practice.
Download or read book Overfishing written by Hannes H. Gissurarson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, Professor Gissurarson explains the Icelandic model of fisheries management, Individual Transferable Share Quotas (ITQs), implemented in 1979 to reverse the decline in Icelandic fish stocks. Access to Icelandic fisheries was traditionally open to all. In the 1960s and 1970s excessive catches of herring and then cod led to a decline in stocks of these important species in Iceland's waters. In response, Iceland's government imposed restrictions on the number of days trawlers could put to sea to catch certain species. This led to fishing Derbies, where fishermen competed to catch as many fish as possible in the limited time available. Inevitably, catches continued to exceed sustainable levels. Starting in 1979, the Icelandic government gradually introduced a system of individual transferable share quotas (ITQs), which essentially give boat owners the right to catch a specific proportion of the total allowable catch (TAC) of certain species. If a boat owner does not wish to use all his ITQ he can sell part of it to someone else. This encourages more efficient use of the capital invested in boats and equipment. Because ITQs entitle their owners to a specific share of the future stock of fish, they create incentives to ensure that stocks are sustainable. Since the introduction of ITQs, capital invested in Icelandic fisheries (boats and equipment) has been gradually falling and catches have fallen to sustainable levels, whilst the value of catches has risen. Because of the success of the ITQ system and the wealth it has created, there is now political pressure for an imposition of a resource rent tax. But such a tax would be contrary to the interests of effective conservation of fish stocks. A more appropriate next step would be to introduce a cost-recovery charge and, as a quid pro quo, give ITQ owners greater say in the administration and enforcement of the system. Owners of ITQ would have stronger incentives to ensure that catch levels were set at the economically optimal level.
Download or read book Case Studies on the Effects of Transferable Fishing Rights on Fleet Capacity and Concentration of Quota Ownership written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Fao. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The case studies include two from the European Union (the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) and one for Iceland, two from the United States' eastern seaboard, seven accounts from Australia, one for New Zealand, one for Alaska, one for Briish Columbia and one for Chile (Patagonia).
Download or read book Monopolizing Individual Transferable Quota written by Rodney Philip Hide and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson's (1991) conclusion that fishing firms will never find it profitable to buy Individual Transferable Quota (ITQs) to retire and so raise fish prices depends critically upon restrictive assumptions. In particular, alternative contractual arrangements allow firms to profit by buying and retiring quota. Including stock effects provides the same result. The fear of monopolization following the introduction of ITQs cannot be dismissed theoretically. Whether or not it proves profitable to buy and retire quota to raise fish prices remains an empirical question. In New Zealand ownership of ITQs has not concentrated over time. However, substantial amounts of quota remain uncaught and the amount uncaught correlates strongly and positively with quota concentration. Most of the New Zealand catch is sold in the world market making it unlikely that quota is retired to raise fish prices. It may be that fishing firms are retiring quota to improve fish stocks and so lower fishing costs. The data are consistent with this hypothesis.
