A Critical Review of the Individual Quota as a Device in Fisheries Management

Copes, Parzival

doi:10.4324/9781315193182-19

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“…The frequency or amount of discarding would be difficult to estimate using a mailed survey technique, and therefore these self-reported discard data may not fully clarify discarding practices or their ecological significance. However, the mere acknowledgement of discarding activity by the small-boat fishermen themselves in both the ITQ and non-ITQ fisheries alike provides a counterexample to literature focusing on ITQs as a conservation tool [56][57] and supports previous analyses suggesting that private ownership itself does not always ensure care for the resource and solve issues of the tragedy of the commons, and in fact may encourage destructive practices like discarding [58][59][60][61][62][63][64].…”

Section: Focus On Economic End Goals Leads To Discards and The "Tragisupporting

confidence: 53%

Thirty years after privatization: A survey of Icelandic small-boat fishermen

Chambers

Carothers

2017

Marine Policy

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Iceland"s nationwide privatized Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system is over thirty years old but remains a topic of public and political debate, particularly because of the continued effects on small-scale fisheries. A national survey of small-boat fishermen was distributed to: 1) identify major defining characteristics of participants in ITQ and non-ITQ fisheries, 2) document and examine differences in satisfaction with fisheries management, and 3) evaluate the existing options for newcomers to participate in small-boat fisheries. Survey results indicate that Icelandic small-boat fishermen are engaged in multiple management systems within a wide range of boat sizes. Those who held quota were more satisfied with the current ITQ system compared to those who did not hold quota; however, nearly all fishermen were still critical of fisheries management in Iceland and the two major non-ITQ options of lumpfish and coastal fishing were not perceived to offer significant opportunity for entry-level fishermen. Dissatisfaction stemmed from the lack of decision-making power, a distrust of scientific advice, and the perception that the ITQ system did not serve the purpose of protecting fisheries resources, but was rather oriented only toward economic goals. The dynamic nature of Icelandic small-boat fishing livelihoods and the pervasive negative attitudes thirty years after ITQ implementation demonstrate the need for culturally appropriate and equitable fisheries management schemes where success is measured in social as well as economic and biological terms.

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Section: Focus On Economic End Goals Leads To Discards and The "Tragisupporting

confidence: 53%

Thirty years after privatization: A survey of Icelandic small-boat fishermen

Chambers

Carothers

2017

Marine Policy

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“…The salience of joint production became clear to economists as many multispecies fisheries began implementing portfolios of total allowable catches (TACs) using collective or individual output quotas. Lack of output substitutability can lead to failure to balance individual TACs with the actual catch composition of the fleet, potentially resulting in rampant illegal discarding, data fouling, and overharvesting of the "choke" species (Copes 1986). Early models of fishing production either focused on a single species or combined multiple species into an aggregate index (output), effectively imposing input-output separability on the fishing production technology.…”

Section: The Fishery Production Function and Fisheries Management: Anmentioning

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Fisheries Production: Management Institutions, Spatial Choice, and the Quest for Policy Invariance

Reimer

Abbott

Wilen

2017

Marine Resource Economics

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The fishery-dependent data used to estimate fishing production technologies are shaped by the incentive structures that influence fishermen's purposeful choices across their multiple margins of production. Using a combination of analytical and simulation methods, we demonstrate how market prices and regulatory institutions influence a dominant short-run margin of production-the deployment of fishing time over space. We show that institutionally driven spatial selection leads to only a partial exploration of the full production set, yielding poorly identified estimates of production possibilities outside of the institutionally dependent status quo. The implication is that many estimated fisheries production functions suffer from a lack of policy invariance and may yield misleading predictions for even the most short-run of policy evaluation tasks. Our findings suggest that accurate assessment of the impacts of a policy intervention requires a description of the fishing production process that is sufficiently structural so as to be invariant to institutional changes.

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“…Simple analytical models have had success in predicting the effects of many formal institutions individually. For example, analytical models correctly predicted that fishers would fish close to the boundaries of marine protected areas (MPAs) to capitalize on target species spillover (Kellner, Tetreault, Gaines, & Nisbet, ; Murawski, Wigley, Fogarty, Rago, & Mountain, ); that fishers might “high‐grade” (i.e., discard low value fish) in response to trip or catch limits that were assessed only at port (Branch et al, ; Copes, ); and that ITQs would reduce fleet capacity and increase fleet‐wide profits (Arnason, ). Fewer formal, analytical models are used to study informal institutions in fisheries, though there are game theoretic models exploring emergence of cooperation (Klein et al, ; Tilman et al, ), and many conceptual models exploring informal institutions, in fisheries and other social‐ecological systems (Hunt, Sutton, & Arlinghaus, ; Kraak, ).…”

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Opportunities for agent‐based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries

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Models of human dimensions of fisheries are important to understanding and predicting how fishing industries respond to changes in marine ecosystems and management institutions. Advances in computation have made it possible to construct agent-based models (ABMs)-which explicitly describe the behaviour of individual people, firms or vessels in order to understand and predict their aggregate behaviours. ABMs are widely used for both academic and applied purposes in many settings including finance, urban planning and the military, but are not yet mainstream in fisheries science and management, despite a growing literature. ABMs are well suited to understanding emergent consequences of fisher interactions, heterogeneity and bounded rationality, especially in complex ecological, social and institutional contexts. For these reasons, we argue that ABMs of human behaviour can contribute significantly to human dimensions of fisheries in three areas: (a) understanding interactions between multiple management institutions; (b) incorporating cognitive and | 571 BURGESS Et al. 7 ABM CHALLENGES 579 7.1 Scope 579 7.2 Calibration and validation 579 7.3 Balancing realism and complexity 578 7.4 Resource and time investment 578 7.5 Documentation and reproducibility 578 8 CONCLUSION: FROM STRATEGIC TO TACTICAL ABMS 581 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 581 DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT 581 REFERENCES 581 APPENDIX 1 586

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A Critical Review of the Individual Quota as a Device in Fisheries Management

Cited by 90 publications

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Thirty years after privatization: A survey of Icelandic small-boat fishermen

Thirty years after privatization: A survey of Icelandic small-boat fishermen

Fisheries Production: Management Institutions, Spatial Choice, and the Quest for Policy Invariance

Opportunities for agent‐based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries

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