"While the Icelandic fisheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for almost a decade and the … fisheries sector seems to be performing well in economical terms, there is still no consensus about quota issue. Lately, the … difficult situation of fisheries communities short of quota has been in the centre of the debate. "In 1991-95, the main …

fisheries. ITQ systems have been introduced as the main system of fishing regulations in some countries (Iceland and New Zealand …"For the past decade Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) have been highly recommended as a device for improving the … economic performance of fisheries. Numerous analytical reviews conclude that within the political and economic constraints of …

. The most common applications involve the control of air pollution, fisheries, and water, although tradable permits are …

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for … improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore … fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as authorized users. Fishers perceive stocks as a free good and in …

"Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralised command and control fisheries management is often suggested … as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and overexploitation. Various researchers have talked … fisheries resources. There have however been no attempts to verify empirically by measuring the transaction costs involved in …

international cooperation efforts for sharing fisheries information, in addition to find ways to understand meta-population dynamics …

"Over the last two decades the commercial fisheries of the Amazon have expanded considerably. Today a large and varied …

development policy concentrates on growth through poverty alleviation and the fisheries sector has a key role to play through the … common property nature of capture fisheries and the associated dissipation of resource rent. "Resource rent dissipation does … the fisheries sector concentrates individuals with low opportunity costs. This low opportunity cost is a contributory …

privatization. We generalize Weitzman's result that fishers become worse off by privatization and we extend the analysis to the …

therefore being more powerful than others. This structure is, for example, found in fisheries where large commercial fishers …