Fisheries, Quota Management and Quota Transfer
Rationalization through Bio-economics
Editors: Winder, Gordon M. (Ed.)
Free Preview- Assesses the effects of over 30 years of fisheries management regimes based on fish stock assessments and catch shares in the fisheries
- Covers fisheries in a range of countries, including Denmark, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the USA
- Examines how and with what effects resource economists and fisheries biologists developed and promoted fisheries stock assessments and catch shares
- Analyzes how fishing enterprises and governments responded in diverse case studies to stock assessment and catch shares
- Brings together multi-disciplinary assessments of the effects of individual transferable quota from a range of disciplines
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This volume examines the impact of fish stock assessment and catch share arrangements in context through case studies and in terms of ecosystem, economy and society. It examines the rationalizing work of bio-economic projects, especially the institutionalization of individual transferable quota (ITQ) in fisheries: what impact have they had on fisheries and fishers? The contributing authors understand ITQ and quota management as bio-economic projects, that is, as widely deployed but locally constituted projects that combine biological and economic logics to rationalize production and, in this case, fish. Politicians and managers use these projects and the models that justify them to rationalize fisheries in favor of modern technology and for capital and species efficiency. Aimed at a diverse interdisciplinary fisheries management readership, and designed as a guide to issues emerging in any assessment of ITQ, the book is a timely investigation of the origins and diverse experiences of ITQ projects, including resistance to them, attempts to develop fisheries management around them, and experiences of the risks that come with them.
Now around forty years old, ITQ has never been subject to the kind of comprehensive sustainability assessments once advocated by Elinor Ostrom, let alone the full-cost accounting of impacts at the national level that Evelyn Pinkerton recently called for. Fisheries, Quota Management and Quota Transfer offers multi-disciplinary assessments of the effects of ITQ from scholars working in eight countries. The book brings together scholars from anthropology, economics, geography, sociology, the history of science, and marine environmental history to discuss experiences from fisheries in eight industrialized countries. It considers cases from outside as well as inside the EU, including ITQ pioneers, New Zealand and Iceland. The combination allows for an unprecedented international perspective on stock assessments and share allocation systems. By emphasizing emerging, becoming, learning and transforming through knowledge, the book conceives technology as a field of power and choice, nevertheless dominated by managers through specific projects in specific contexts. Individual chapters relate bio-economic projects to separate theoretical literature, an approach that facilitates multi-disciplinary dialog.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Fisheries, Quota Management, Quota Transfer and Bio-economic Rationalization
Pages 3-28
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Fisheries Biology and the Dismal Science: Economists and the Rational Exploitation of Fisheries for Social Progress
Pages 31-61
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There’s Always another Fish Available – Why Bother about Quotas at All?
Pages 63-73
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Context and Challenges: The Limited ‘Success’ of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Fisheries Experiment, 1986–2016
Pages 77-98
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In the Wake of ITQs in Iceland, 1991–2011: A Dynamic Approach to Marine Resource Management Policies
Pages 99-117
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Fisheries, Quota Management and Quota Transfer
- Book Subtitle
- Rationalization through Bio-economics
- Editors
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- Gordon M. Winder
- Series Title
- MARE Publication Series
- Series Volume
- 15
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-59169-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-59169-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-59167-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86559-1
- Series ISSN
- 2212-6260
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 240
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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