The exclusion from U.S. waters since 1981 has greatly reduced the harvest potential for Canada's Pacific halibut fleet, making it particularly important that halibut resources in the Canadian zone he exploited at optimal levels. This paper provides a bioeconomic analysis of the joint-stock...

In many fisheries around the world, the failures of centralized, top-down management have produced a shift toward co-management—collaboration and sharing of decision making between government and stakeholders. This trend has led to a major debate between two very different co-management...