User rights in fisheries refer to the rights of fishers to harvest from fish resources. In terms of exclusivity, security, duration and transferability these rights can be strong or they can be weak. ...In recent years there has been a substantial movement toward stronger user rights in many fisheries around the globe and further shifts of the same kind are recommended by many fisheries advisors. The paper argues that a transition from weak to strong user rights in fisheries has a wide range of impacts. In the paper it is attempted to identify and describe some of the more prominent of these impacts. It is found that these impacts may be conveniently divided in economic, environmental and social impacts. Although this classification is by no means perfect or even exhaustive, it is hoped that it can serve as a framework for further research in the field. The paper continues to provide some discussion of the social desirability and undesirability of the various impacts.
Previous research has concluded that a transition to SURFs (strong user rights in fisheries) has several economic, environmental, and social impacts. In this paper, the problem of assessing the ...values of these impacts is considered. First, this kind of an assessment is considered in general terms. It is found that the values of the impacts depend in general on the empirical situation at hand. Therefore, a broad result that a transition to SURFs is either beneficial or detrimental does not seem to be available. Following this finding, it is attempted to evaluate empirically prominent impacts of installing SURFs in the Philippines Marine fisheries. On the basis of the available data and some simple bioeconomic modelling, it is found that the economic and biological impacts are mostly beneficial and their sum highly positive. Because of lack of data, the social impacts of SURFs could not be evaluated. However, it appears unlikely that they are detrimental enough to render a transition to SURFs inadvisable.
Tables and figures Aligica, Paul Dragos; Tingle, Rachel; Sterpan, Ion ...
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry,
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Introduction Aligica, Paul Dragos; Tingle, Rachel; Sterpan, Ion ...
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry,
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The tragedy of state regulation Aligica, Paul Dragos; Tingle, Rachel; Sterpan, Ion ...
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry,
2017
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13: Reform of the CFP Aligica, Paul Dragos; Tingle, Rachel; Sterpan, Ion ...
Sea Change: How Markets and Property Rights Could Transform the Fishing Industry,
2017
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