This paper proposes a salmon management strategy for the dual purpose of strengthening the economies of First Nation river communities and substantially increasing the production of salmon from the Fraser and Skeena watersheds for the benefit of all stakeholders. This would involve an initial...

Promoters of individual transferable quota (ITQ) management regimes have often held out the prospect that such regimes generally will offer superior performance over alternative fisheries managements systems. My purpose in this paper is to challenge the notion of ITQ superiority in an important...

The objective of this paper is to present an analytical description and classification of observable impacts that individual quota (IQ) regimes may have on social conditions affecting fishers and fiching communities.

In this paper I intend to offer a general assessment of major alternatives in fisheries management. My analysis will be confined to fisheries management systems that are pertinent to industrially advanced countries, where the need for such systems is apparent and where the financial,...

This paper is intended to revisit the question of rational fisheries exploitation raised by Gordon in his celebrated 1954 article in the Journal of Political Economy, that has served as the starting point for the development of the fisheries economics sub-discipline.