Innovations in Property Rights for Fisheries Management

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PERC Workshop Papers

Bren School of Environmental Science and Mangement
University of California Santa Barbara
October 19–21, 2009
Co-directed by Christopher Costello and Kurt Schnier
Agenda
Workshop summary and synopsis of each paper
Full papers

This workshop focused on new innovations in utilizing property rights to manage fisheries as well as the development and impacts of contemporary rights-based fishery management programs.

Top researchers within academia and the management arena were assembled to discuss such diverse topics as property rights for alternative marine uses, allocation mechanisms, bycatch concerns, property rights in aquaculture, high-seas quota regimes, territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs) and unitization.

Researchers also presented work investigating the contemporary impacts of recently implemented rights-based management regimes within Alaska as well as the recently proposed sectoral allocations in New England and the utilization of conservation easements in fisheries.

Given the broad spectrum of individuals invited to the workshop and the diversity of topics discussed, the workshop provides a foundation for future research collaborations and enhance the development of new rights-based management regimes within fisheries.

Papers

1. Efficient Allocation of Marine Resources to Alternative Uses: To What Extent Can ITQs Help?
   Ragnar Arnason

2.The Emerging Dominance of Aquaculture and Implications for Rights-Based Management
   James Anderson

3. The design of hybrid individual incentive mechanisms for bycatch reduction
   Alan Haynie

4. Property Rights Solutions to the Bycatch Problem: The Alaskan Pollock/ Salmon Case
   Jim Wilen

5.The Scope for Property Rights in High Seas Fisheries
   Rognvaldur Hannesson

6. The Allocation and Dissipation of Fishery Resource Rents
   Gary Libecap

7. Unitization and TURFs
   Dan Kaffine

8. Can spatial property rights fix fisheries?
   Chris Costello

9. An Assessment of the Employment and Remuneration Effects of Rationalization in the Bering Sea Crab Fisheries
   Joshua Abbott

10. Production Efficiency and Exit in Rights-Based Fisheries
   Kurt Schnier

 Property Rights in Practice Presentation

Free Form Property Rights for Fisheries: The Decentralized Design of Rights-Based Management through Groundfish “Sectors” in New England
   Dan Holland

 

 

 

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