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Rights Based Fishing

By Ragnar Arnason , Philip A. Neher , Nina Mollett (auth.) , Nina Mollett (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1989
ISBN
978-94-010-7568-8, 978-94-009-2372-0
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-2372-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18239844 bytes)
Series
NATO ASI Series 169
Edition
1
Pages
541\538
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Environmental Economics; Environmental Management;

Description

The genesis of this conference was on a quay of the port of Bergen in March 1985. Ragnar Amason suggested to Phil Neher a small, mid-Atlantic conference on recent developments in fishery management. In the event, more than twenty papers were scheduled and over one hundred and fifty conferees were registered. Logistical complications were sorted through for a summer 1988 conference in Iceland. The really innovative management programs were in the South Pacific; Aus­ tralia and New Zealand had introduced Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs); and Iceland, Norway and Canada were also experimenting with quotas. It seemed to the program committee (Rognvaldur Hannesson and Geoffrey Waugh were soon on­ board) that these quotas had more or less characteristics of property rights. Property rights were also taking other forms in other places (time and area licenses, restrictive licensing of vessels and gear, traditional use rights). The idea of rights based fishing became the theme of the conference.

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