therefore being more powerful than others. This structure is, for example, found in fisheries where large commercial fishers …

"While the Icelandic fisheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for almost a decade and the … fisheries sector seems to be performing well in economical terms, there is still no consensus about quota issue. Lately, the … difficult situation of fisheries communities short of quota has been in the centre of the debate. "In 1991-95, the main …

"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for … improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore … fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as authorized users. Fishers perceive stocks as a free good and in …

that the economic theory of common property natural resource use is not well developed. It was with this premise that the …

"Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralised command and control fisheries management is often suggested … as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and overexploitation. Various researchers have talked … fisheries resources. There have however been no attempts to verify empirically by measuring the transaction costs involved in …

theory of ITQ's also assumes that quota market prices will reflect the resource rent generated by the fisheries under an ITQ …"Fisheries management by individual transferable quotas (ITQ's) is being advocated by several fisheries economists as a … solution to 'tragedy of commons' situations in the fisheries. Until lately, the studies of ITQ's have been purely theoretical …

international cooperation efforts for sharing fisheries information, in addition to find ways to understand meta-population dynamics …

"Over the last two decades the commercial fisheries of the Amazon have expanded considerably. Today a large and varied …