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- Title
Individual transferable quotas and ecosystem-based fisheries management: it’s all in the T.
- Authors
Gibbs, Mark T.
- Abstract
Recent articles in high-profile journals advocating the widespread establishment of economic rights-based approaches for managing fisheries has re-kindled the debate over the efficacy of incentive-based vs. regulatory-based management approaches. Inspection of these works, written from the particular perspectives of economics, fisheries biology, or marine ecology, reveals that advocates of rights-based regimes such as Individual Transferrable Quotas are sometimes recommending these policy instruments for quite different reasons. Hence, the advantageous attributes of rights-based approaches from the perspective of one discipline may be quite different when seen from the perspective of another discipline. This is of concern as it exposes a tendency for particular disciplines to consider only the advantages of rights-based approaches, such as establishing a harvest cap, but to implicitly discount the disadvantages such as less attention being paid to critical ecological and ecosystem issues.
- Subjects
FISHERY management; AQUATIC ecology; BIOTIC communities; ENVIRONMENTAL sciences; MARINE ecology
- Publication
Fish & Fisheries, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 4, p470
- ISSN
1467-2960
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-2979.2009.00343.x