Creating incentives to curb overfishing

Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 29-34

  Fujita, Rodney M ^a   Hopkins, D Douglas ^a   Willey, W R Zach ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; INCENTIVES; INDIVIDUAL TRANSFERABLE QUOTA; ITQ'S; MANAGEMENT APPROACH; OVERFISHING; QUOTA SYSTEM;

EID: 0029961441     PISSN: 08878218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. M.C. Holiday and B.K. O'Bannon, eds., Fisheries of the United States, 1993: Current Fisheries Statistics No. 9300 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, May 1994).
2. Ibid.
3. P. Weber, Net Loss: Fish, Jobs, and the Marine Environment (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, July 1994).
4. Our Living Oceans: Report on the Status of U.S. Living Marine Resources, 1993 (Washington, DC: Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memorandum, NMFS-F/SPO-Dec. 15, 1993).
5. Weber, Net Loss: Fish, Jobs, and the Marine Environment.
6. B. Holmes, "Biologists Sort the Lessons of Fisheries Collapse," Science 264 (May 27, 1994), pp. 1252-1253.
7. Ibid.
8. An Assessment of the Status of the Oregon Coastal Natural Coho Stock as Required Under the Definition of Overfishing (Portland, OR: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1992).
9. Holmes, "Biologists Sort the Lessons of Fisheries Collapse."
10. Ibid.
11. B. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs (Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, CFEC 91-7, 1991), p. 34; B. Muse and K. Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas: A Preliminary Review of Some Recent Programs (Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, 1988).
12. B. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs (Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, CFEC 91-7, 1991), p. 34; B. Muse and K. Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas: A Preliminary Review of Some Recent Programs (Juneau: Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, 1988).
13. J.R. Gauvin, "The South Atlantic Wreckfish Fishery: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Conservation Effects of a Working ITQ System," in Limiting Access to Marine Fisheries: Keeping the Focus on Conservation (Washington, DC: Center for Marine Conservation and the World Wildlife Fund, 1994).
14. R.E. Townsend, "A Fractional Licensing Program for Fisheries," Land Economics 68 (May 1992), pp. 185-190.
15. Ibid.
16. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas. See also, Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Halibut Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Sablefish Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); and "Conservation Benefits of ITQS," EDFReport (Jan. 1996).
17. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas. See also, Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Halibut Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Sablefish Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); and "Conservation Benefits of ITQS," EDFReport (Jan. 1996).
18. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas. See also, Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Halibut Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Sablefish Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); and "Conservation Benefits of ITQS," EDFReport (Jan. 1996).
19. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas. See also, Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Halibut Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Sablefish Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); and "Conservation Benefits of ITQS," EDFReport (Jan. 1996).
20. Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermen's Quotas. See also, Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Halibut Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); Evaluation Study of Individual Quota Management in the Sablefish Fishery (British Columbia, Canada: Report to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 1992); and "Conservation Benefits of ITQS," EDFReport (Jan. 1996).
21. "Conservation Benefits of ITQs."
22. P.A. Robson, "Most B.C. Fishermen Give IQ Program High Marks," National Fisherman 75 (Oct. 1994) and Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; and Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermens' Quotas.
23. P.A. Robson, "Most B.C. Fishermen Give IQ Program High Marks," National Fisherman 75 (Oct. 1994) and Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; and Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermens' Quotas.
24. P.A. Robson, "Most B.C. Fishermen Give IQ Program High Marks," National Fisherman 75 (Oct. 1994) and Muse, Survey of Individual Quota Programs; and Muse and Schelle, Individual Fishermens' Quotas.
25. By establishing a cap on an individual's catch, ITQs may appear to create an additional incentive to maximize the value of the catch by discarding less valuable fish. In reality, however, ITQs may contribute little to the problem of high-grading. For instance, in the wreckfish ITQ system, high-grading was not a problem. An analysis of one North Pacific sablefish fishery indicated that the price differential between higher- and lower-quality fish may not have been large enough to justify the considerable costs of high-grading. Such costs include lost fishing time and increased time at sea.