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 …

… of Human Rights. This perspective goes well beyond the widely advocated notion of ‘rights-based
fishing’ and aligns what fishery sector analysts call the ‘rights-based approach’ with …

… of two rights based systems, the individual transferable quotas in Iceland and the fishing
concessions in Norway. The ITQs in Iceland were first established in the herring fishery in the …

… come to rely on transferable fishing rights, especially individual transferable quotas (ITQs). …
), we have not seen any rights based management developing. Such approaches have been …

… rights-based approach that assigns rights to a share of the catch from a fish stock to individuals
as individual transferable quotas (ITQs). ITQs and other rights-based fishery … fishery rents. …

… a rightsbased system stems from a traditional fishing rights … fisheries, achieving sustainability
in the fishery is dependent on … cost of fishery management, and the windfall profits of fishery …

… towards private property rights in fishing. The increased value of such rights due to
increasing scarcity of fish has already been mentioned, but the very fact that such rights, albeit …

… rights-based fishery management systems of their own and/or are more socio-culturally
homogeneous. Given the long history of failed fishery … User rights in modern rights-based fishery …

… fishery to catch shares management on fishing safety, we focus on the propensity to start a
fishing … data-rich fishery: the West Coast sablefish fixed gear fishery. The characteristics of the …

… All of these fall under the heading of rights-based fishing. By using them, many fisheries …
rights-based fishing and explores various institutional arrangements along the property rights …