Fishers' Individual Salmon Harvesting Rights: An Option for Canada's Pacific Fisheries

R. Quentin Grafton and H.W. Nelson

Working Papers from University of Ottawa, Department of Economics

Abstract: Canada's Pacific salmon fisheries are again in a crisis of declining stocks, excess fishing effort and poor returns. Changes in fisheries management which may help resolve some of these problems include licence buy-backs, individual transferable quotas, additional effort controls, single gear licensing and area licensing or combination thereof. This paper proposes an alternative fishers' individual salmon harvesting rights which provide fishers with rights to bid for the privilege of participating in salmon fishing openings.

Keywords: FISHING; CANADA; NATURAL RESOURCES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q20 Q22 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 1996
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