Distributional issues in the operation of rights-based fisheries management systems |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Sustainable Futures and the Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology, Sydney, PO BOX 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia;2. School of Business, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Rights-based management regimes are considered by economists as an important solution to the problems of excess capacity and biological over-harvesting of fisheries. In practice, adoption of such regimes, and particularly of those relying on individual quota allocations, has often met with resistance from within the fisheries concerned. A key reason for this resistance appears to be the distributional conflicts which arise in the process of implementing the regimes. An economic analysis of the nature of these conflicts in the different contexts in which they have been observed is proposed. The approach centres on the way in which distributional conflicts can influence the operation of management systems and their impacts on fisheries, from the country to the individual firm level. As an illustration, an analysis of the economic processes at firm level is developed based on the simulation of a fishery managed under individual transferable quotas. |
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