annotated bibliography of fisheries economics literature - Office of ...

of Canada is reviewed by the authors. The management history is presented
with particular emphasis on the aspects of the fishery that lead to the
adoption of individual transferable quotas and the problems that developed
with that program.
Pearse, Peter H. (1979). "Introduction to the Symposium on Managing
Fishing Effort." Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of
Canada, 36(7):711-714.
The symposium was designed to bring together a small number of leading
fishery economists and fishery administrators with experience in the field of
fisheries management from Canada, the U.S., and elsewhere. Our purpose was to
pool our knowledge about the current state of the art in economic
rationalization of fisheries, to document and analyze the available
experience, and to explore avenues of needed policy research.
Pearse, Peter H. (1982). Turning the Tide, a New Policy for Canada's
Pacific fisheries. Final Report of the Commission on Pacific
Fisheries Policy, Vancouver, September, 292 pp.
This report identifies opportunities for reorganizing the commercial
fisheries to put an end to their chronic instability and poor economic
performance and start them on a healthier course of development, for
preserving and enhancing sportfishing opportunities, and for securing Indians'
traditional access to fish. These are not just theoretical possibilities;
they are attainable through established technologies and regulatory methods
and at a cost that is modest relative to the benefits.
Pearse, Peter H. (1992). "From Open Access to Private Property: Recent
Innovations in Fishing Rights as Instruments of Fisheries Policy."
Ocean Development and International Law, 23:71-83.
As pressures on ocean fisheries have grown, pervasive evidence of
overexploited resources and economic distress has revealed fundamental
weaknesses in traditional regulatory policies. In their search for new
management approaches, fishing nations have recently turned their attention to
the nature of fishing rights, and the trend is clearly toward more well
defined, exclusive property rights. In a remarkably short time the tradition
of open access to ocean fisheries has waned; rights to most of the world's
fish resources have been appropriated by coastal states, their governments
have excluded everyone from access to the stocks except those who hold
licenses, and increasingly, the rights of license holders are quantitatively
specified. Experience so far suggests that strengthening the property rights
of fishing enterprises is a promising means of improving the management of
marine resources as well as the economic performance of fishing industries,
and it portends profound changes in fishing regimes.
Pearse, Peter H. and James E. Wilen (1979). "Impact of Canada's Pacific
Salmon Fleet Control Program." J. Fish. Res. Board Can., 36:764-
769.
The available statistical data are analyzed to appraise the success of
Canada's Pacific salmon fleet rationalization program, in terms of the extent
to which it has prevented fishing costs from rising in pace with the value of
the catch. It is found that while the fleet's revenues increased at about the
same rate before and after the scheme was introduced in 1969, the real capital
employed increased more slowly under the controls than earlier. The program
has, nevertheless, failed in its purpose of preventing further expansion of
redundant capital in the fleet. The reasons for this failure, and for certain
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