Fisher's behaviour with individual vessel quotas--Over-capacity and potential rent: Five case studies

Frank Asche, Håkan Eggert, Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, Ayoe Hoff and Sean Pascoe

Marine Policy, 2008, vol. 32, issue 6, 920-927

Abstract: Internationally, individual vessel quotas (IVQ) have become an increasingly popular management tool. The main attraction of IVQs is the incentives they create for cost savings, autonomous capacity adjustment and, subsequently, rent generation. In this paper, the extent to which different IVQ systems have facilitated resource rent generation and capacity adjustment in five European countries--Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the UK--is examined. The potential economic rents and the capacity reduction necessary to achieve these rents in each of the fisheries are also estimated. Reasons why IVQs have not achieved their potential economic benefits in these fisheries are also examined.

Keywords: Fisheries; management; Resource; rent; Over-capacity; Individual; vessel; quotas; Incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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