water and fisheries

Evaluating The New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market For Fisheries Management.

Suzi Kerr, Richard Newell, Jim Sanchirico. Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust. Assesses the New Zealand ITQ system to identify areas of success and/or possible improvement or expansion within it. Highlights features of the New Zealand ITQ system that are relevant to other potential tradable permit markets.

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Transferable Fishing Quotas in Chile - Case Study in the Design and Use of Market Based Instruments for Resource Policy.

Nicola Borregaard, Frank Convery, Paloma González, Karin Gauer, CIPMA (Centro de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente), Santiago, Chile.

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Structural Adjustment in Australian Fisheries.

Prepared for the Fisheries Resources Research Fund. Report presents general principles on the nature and cause of, and potential solutions to, capacity problems in fisheries. Contains Australian case studies.

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Perverse Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the Economy.

(Table of Contents; full web version not available). Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. Island Press in cooperation with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. One chapter of this book provides a quick overview of global subsidies to fisheries and the damage they cause.

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Fishing Subsidies: Issues for African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries.

(French). Based on presentation made by David K. Schorr. The stakes in the WTO fishing subsidies negotiations are especially high for many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Increased attention to the fishing subsidies issue by capital-based ACP officials is critically needed in the coming months.

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International Work on Fishing Subsidies: An Update.

Ronald P. Steenblik and Gordon R. Munro, OECD Publication. This paper is an update of one prepared for the First Workshop of the EU Concerted Action on Economics and the Common Fisheries Policy, 28-30 October 1998. Like that paper, it surveys current international work in the area of subsidies to the fisheries sector (as of end-May 1999), with particular reference to ongoing activities in the OECD, the FAO, the CSD, APEC and the WTO.

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Case Study: Fisheries, Transparency and Participation

Fe Sanchis Moreno, prepared for WWF/Adena by TERRA, Environmental Policy Center. (See chapter 5 in conference proceedings).

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Transition to Responsible Fisheries, Modelling the Transition To Responsible Fisheries: Group I Case Studies

Transition to Responsible Fisheries, Modelling the Transition To Responsible Fisheries: Group I Case Studies and Transition to Responsible Fisheries, Government Financial Transfers and Resource Sustainability: Case Studies. OECD Publication. The study covers four distinct areas of work.

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Fencing the Fishery - A Primer on Ending The Race for Fish.

Donald Leal, Property and Environment Research Center Publication. Guide argues that rights-based fishing policies, including individual transferable quotas, territorial rights and private harvesting agreements can reduce the costly and destructive "race to fish". Limited discussion of some of the challenges of ITQs, such

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Turning the Tide on Fishing Subsidies: Can the World Trade Center Play a Positive Role?

WWF Publication. Despite the positive role that the World Trade Organization could play in controlling fisheries subsidies, the paper argues that negotiators have not yet made conservation and sustainable development real priorities.

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