Challenges for New Zealand's individual transferable quota system: Processor consolidation, fisher exclusion, & Māori quota rights

Individual Transferable Quota Markets Under Illegal Fishing

The presence of violations and the need for enforcement of tradable property rights systems in fisheries has not receiving much attention in the literature. The theoretical promise of property rights-based fisheries is to achieve a given total allowable catch with a maximum social benefit. One of the assumption for that result is that the system is in perfect compliance. The incidents of noncom...

Consolidation in an individual transferable quota regime: lessons from New Zealand, 1986-1999.

Market-based approaches to environmental regulation (such as tradable permits or transferable quotas) are frequently offered as innovative solutions to many environmental problems. Globally, one of the most well-established forms of this approach is individual transferable quotas (or ITQs) in fisheries management. Within the natural resource management community, there is considerable debate ov...

Implementation of Individual Transferable Quota system in Fisheries Management: The case of the Icelandic Fisheries

Since 1950s, the world marine fish resources have suffered the serious over-fishing. The marine resources subsequently have been in great danger. Quite diverse management regimes are used to regulate the fisheries globally. Among them, the individual transferable quota (ITQ) system is claimed to achieve the sustainable fisheries. The report is to explore the Icelandic ITQ system carefully. This...

Quota system for preventing whaling

Quota system for preventing whaling