Transferable fishing rights in the form of individual transferable catch quota (ITQ) have been
introduced into a large number of fisheries worldwide, mainly to achieve resource …

Fisheries managers seek to maintain sustainable fisheries production, but successful
management often requires the pursuit of multiple biological, ecological, and socioeconomic …

The world faces major risks in ensuring the sustainability and on-going socio-economic
benefits from its marine capture fisheries (MCFs). Key drivers of risks for MCFs include …

Abstract Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) fisheries management systems are supposed to
remedy the over-capacity problem associated with traditional command-and-control …

Effort rights‐based fisheries management (RBM) is less widely used than catch rights,
whether for groups or individuals. Because RBM on catch or effort necessarily requires a …

Overfishing and environmental factors, such as climate change, pose critical threats to
marine fisheries worldwide by reducing net economic returns and stock resilience. These …

Understanding the processes generating fluctuations of natural populations lies at the very
heart of academic ecology. It is also very important for applications such as fisheries …

The Convention of the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the
Western and Central Pacific Ocean is a remarkable achievement in international fisheries …

The established of exclusive rights to fish is essential for tuna-Regional Fisheries
Management Organizations to prevent overfishing, achieve sustainability, and to realize …

Rights-based management has been advocated as a means of improving the biological
sustainability and economic performance of commercial fisheries. The most common forms …