Property and Use Rights in Fisheries

Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 39-64

  Squires, Dale ^a,b,c,d  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agreement for the International Dolphin Conservation Program (AIDCP); Characteristics of property and use rights; Exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of nations; Fishing rights; Hybrid rights or overlapping systems of rights more than one type of right; Property and use rights in fisheries; Regulated open access remains open to entrants; State rights (res publicae), rights held by the state; Territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs); Types of property rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876740313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813820262.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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