The use of individual quotas in fisheries management

As many fish stocks face over-exploitation and fishermen suffer from low incomes, alternative management regimes are investigated more agressively. Among these, the use of individual quotas in the management of fisheries has received increasing attention because of their success in improving resource allocation and their positive affects on fish stock conservation.

This publication, printed in 1993, is a collection of papers presented to an OECD Workshop on Individual Quota Management Systems. It addresses the practical problems which OECD countries face with individual quotas, and provides an account of their experiences.

This OECD publication has been divided into 14 chapters available in PDF (the size is indicated in brackets):

Chapter 1: Outcome of the workshop on individual quota management, United Kingdom (1MB)
Chapter 2: Individual transferable quotas in the Finnish salmon fishery - Prospects for the future (3MB)
Chapter 3: Individual transferable quotas - The Italian case (500KB)
Chapter 4: Individual transferable quotas - The New Zealand case (2MB)
Chapter 5: Effects of property rights on the structure of the fishing industry, Netherlands (700KB)
Chapter 6: Australian experience with individual transferable quota systems (4MB)
Chapter 7: Individual transferable quotas for the fixed gear sablefish and halibut fisheries of Alaska,United States (5MB)
Chapter 8: Icelandic fisheries management (3MB)
Chapter 9: Individual quota management - Canada's experience featuring the Pacific halibut fishery (3MB)
Chapter 10: Individual transferable quotas of the surf clam ans ocean quahog fishery of the northwest Atlantic, United States (2MB)
Chapter 11: Individual quota management systems in Norway (1MB)
Chapter 12: Fishery models and management systems, Spain (2MB)
Chapter 13: Comparative study of fishery management systems in Japan and New Zealand (2MB)
Chapter 14: Polish management system - Baltic fishery (1MB)



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