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quotas as a fisheries management instrument citing the results of actual
applications. Individual quotas are not useful in the fisheries
"rationalization" process unless they are transferable. However individual
transferable quotas have unsightly equity and income reallocation effects.
The question that remains unanswered in the paper is whether ITQ's are
preferable to the common property or open access fishery scenario.
Copes, Parzival (1997). "Social Impacts of Fisheries Management Regimes
Based on Individual Quotas." In Gisli Palsson and Guthrun
Petursdottir (eds.), Social Implications of Quota Systems in
Fisheries, 61-90. Proceedings of the Workshop on Social
Implications of Quota Systems in fisheries, Vestman Islands,
Iceland, May 1996, Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.
The objective of this paper is to present an analytical description and
classification of observable impacts that individual quota (IQ) regimes may
have on social conditions affecting fishers and fishing communities. The
pursuit of greater net benefits to society that is the purported purpose of IQ
regimes, suggest compatibility with a general goal of greater social welfare.
However, there are a number of reasons why IQ regimes may fail in this regard
and instead may be the cause of adverse impacts on social welfare. Three
reasons are conceptual exclusion, conventional disregard, and injection of
negative externalities. In choosing a fisheries management system, the
challenge now is to reach consensus on a multiobjective decision-making
process which will give agreed weights in trading off measures of economic
efficiency and social desirability that need to be taken into account.
Corbett, Michael G. (1970). "Machine for Separating Northern Shrimp,
Pandalus borealis, from Fish and Trash in the Catch." Fishery
Industrial Research, 6(2):53-62.
Because of the labor required in separating northern shrimp from the
unwanted components of the catch that are taken along with it, this valuable
resource in the Gulf of Maine is not harvested to the extend possible.
Consequently, a machine was developed to separate the shrimp from the bulk of
groundfish and other species taken in trawl catches during exploratory and
commercial fishing. Its use eliminates the laborious task of sorting the
catch by hand. Yet the separator recovers about 95 percent of the shrimp that
are fed into it, while eliminating about 90 percent of the trash.
Corkett, C.J. (1997). Managing the Fisheries By Social Engineering: A Re-
Evaluation of the Methods of Stock Assessment. J. Appl. Ichthyol,
13:159-170.
This paper criticizes the management of the world s fisheries that are
based upon the use of positive predictions derived from fisheries models, an
instrumentalist approach that is illustrated by the practical application of
Graham-Schaefer models constructed according to the verificationist s view of
science. It is proposed that Karl Popper s technological social science,
designed to solve problems of social tradition of which overfishing is an
example would fill this lacuna. This technology would employ the services of
a social engineer, a modern fisheries manager, who should use the prescientific
method of trial and error and the negative guidance of bold pattern
predications to re-evacuate the institutions of fisheries management.
Cornes, Richard and Todd Sandler (1983). "On Commons and Tragedies."
American Economic Review, 73(4):787-792.
This paper extends the study of the commons to include a nonzero
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