Fisheries

Towards Sustainable Fisheries - Economic Aspects of the Management of Living Marine Resources.

(Summary). OECD. Experience has shown that a regime which does not adequately limit fishing capacity may lead to overexploitation and poor economic performance. Report analyzes the use of alternative managements regimes in over 100 fisheries and assesses their effectiveness in OECD countries. Whole book not available online. Full article not available online.

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Fisheries Management Costs: Concepts and Studies.

Paul Wallis and Ola Flaaten, OECD Publication. This study explores the extent of the cost of government financial transfers and how they vary between countries, fisheries and management systems in use.

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Subsidies and Deep-Sea Fisheries Management: Policy Issues and Challenges.

Anthony Cox. Presentation at New Zealand Deep Sea Conference (December 1-5, 2003).

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Commercial Fisheries: Information on Federal Funded Buyback Programs.

Addressed to the Honorable Don Young by James Meissner.

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An Economic Assessment of the Tariff Reform Program for the Philippine Fisheries Sector.

Elizabeth Tan, WWF Publication.

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Subsidies in the Fisheries Sector: Update on Recent Work Completed by New Zealand.

World Trade Organization, Committee on Trade and Environment.

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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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