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"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 …
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"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 …
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"The common property ocean fishery is often cited as an example of economic inefficiency in production. The usual recommendation is to restrict entry of fishermen so that 'incomes' of those remaining are improved. Such logic would seem to indicate that the economic theory of common property...
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"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 …
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"Observation and measurement of the ocean's ecosystems is difficult and costly. It makes verification of our theories difficult and forces us to engage in collective action based upon often very imperfect concepts of the dynamics of the system. Once we establish the institutions of collective...
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"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 … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …
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international cooperation efforts for sharing fisheries information, in addition to find ways to understand meta-population dynamics …
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"Over the last two decades the commercial fisheries of the Amazon have expanded considerably. Today a large and varied …
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"In the Philippines, small-scale fisheries, as common pool resources, remains beset by the problems of resource … public policy. Such framework would sketch a broad outline of fisheries as an economic sector and serve as basis for more … detailed studies on selected fisheries, the production and marketing of which is crucial to small-scale fishing communities …
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goal is to arrive at a framework which includes the contextual factors and feedback loops that influence fisheries and … fisheries management. The framework can be used as a sensitizing model, i.e. it focuses attention on important interferential …
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