Emerging as an innovation for improving the management of overexploited fisheries around
the world, rights-based fisheries management systems are being implemented in the form of …

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 …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

The argument persists that the continued overexploitation by many fisheries around the
world is evidence that current approaches to fisheries management are failing, and that …

'The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform'shows the difference
between the potential and actual net economic benefits from marine fisheries is about $50 …

Excess fishing capacity and the growth in global demand for fishery products have made
overfishing ubiquitous in the world's oceans. Here we describe the potential catch losses …

Each of the five of us has been working on various aspects of small-scale fisheries over the
years. But the story of this particular book really started in 1997 with Robin's paper in the …

Many analyses of fishery recovery have demonstrated the potential biological and economic
benefits of management reform, but few have compared these to the associated costs of …

There is a gap in information in the literature regarding the energy and water embodied is
seafood, especially wild catch fisheries. This work draws on primary and secondary data to …

Ocean fish stocks have traditionally been regarded and arranged as common property
resources. Thirty years ago the common property arrangement was virtually universal …