"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 …

"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 …

"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 …

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 …

"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 …

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 …

economic performance of fisheries. Numerous analytical reviews conclude that within the political and economic constraints of … fisheries. ITQ systems have been introduced as the main system of fishing regulations in some countries (Iceland and New Zealand …

development policy concentrates on growth through poverty alleviation and the fisheries sector has a key role to play through the … common property nature of capture fisheries and the associated dissipation of resource rent. "Resource rent dissipation does … the fisheries sector concentrates individuals with low opportunity costs. This low opportunity cost is a contributory …