The effect of rights-based fisheries management on risk taking and fishing safety.

ABSTRACT: Commercial fishing is a dangerous occupation despite decades of regulatory initiatives aimed at making it safer. We posit that rights-based fisheries management (the individual allocation of fishing quota to vessels or fishing entities, also called catch shares) can improve safety by solving many of the problems associated with the competitive race to fish experienced in fisheries around the world. The competitive nature of such fisheries results in risky behavior such as fishing in poor weather, overloading vessels with fishing gear, and neglecting maintenance. Although not necessarily intended to address safety issues, catch shares eliminate many of the economic incentives to fish as rapidly as possible. We develop a dataset and methods to empirically evaluate the effects of the adoption

SUBMITTER: Pfeiffer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791003 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature