Lexington Books
Pages: 262
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-2802-2 • Hardback • February 2009 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-2803-9 • Paperback • October 2008 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
978-0-7391-3018-6 • eBook • January 1955 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Donald R. Leal is a senior fellow and Research Director for the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). Vishwanie Maharaj is an economist in the Gulf Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund.
1 Table of Contents
2 List of Tables and Figures
3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Part 5 I. Prospects for Recreational Fishing Rights
Chapter 6 1. Evolution of Property Rights: Lessons of Process and Potential for the Pacific Northwest Recreational Fisheries
Chapter 7 2. Recreational Fishing and New Zealand's Evolving Rights-Based System of Management
Chapter 8 3. Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?
Part 9 II. Integrating Management of Commercial and Recreational Fishing
Chapter 10 4. Allocation of Fishing Rights between Commercial and Recreational Fishers
Chapter 11 5. Harmonizing Recreational and Commercial Fisheries: An Integrated Rights-Based Approach
Part 12 III. IFQs and the Commercial Charter Boat Sector
Chapter 13 6. Examining the Interface between Commercial Fishing and Sportfishing: A Property Rights Perspective
Chapter 14 7. Sports Charterboat Quota Systems: Predicting Impacts on Anglers and the Industry
Part 15 IV. Management Strategies for Saltwater Anglers
Chapter 16 8. Fish Harvest Tags: An Attenuated Rights-Based Management Approach for Recreational Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Chapter 17 9. Angling Management Organizations: Integrating the Recreational Sector into Fishery Management
18 Index
19 About the Contributors
Here at last is a collection of workable solutions to the vexing problem of allocating the rights to recreational fishing: the remaining untamed threat to fish stocks. While the grand masters of rights allocation—Arnason, Pearse, and Leal—are here, the excitement arises from the large number of new analysts who have been attracted to this policy conundrum. This is a must read for the genuinely engaged regulator.
— Michael Walker, Fraser Institute, Canada
With a blend of common sense and innovative ideas, this book should serve as food for thought for managers of our coastal fisheries and the angling community. Looking to the future, traditional fishery management only means more of the same—closed seasons, restrictive size limits, rapidly shrinking bag limits, and dissatisfaction among recreational anglers. The market-based reforms discussed in Evolving Approaches offer some enlightened alternatives that have the potential to yield both healthy fisheries and happy anglers.
— Brian Yablonski, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
This collection of chapters demonstrates that lessons learned from rights-based systems in commercial fisheries can be beneficially applied to the management of recreational fisheries. This book offers an excellent mix of theoretical and applied works that will be valuable reading on the frontiers of recreational fisheries management for both the participant and professional.
— Lee G. Anderson, University of Delaware
Leal and Maharaj have brought together an impressive assembly of economists that have dealt with property rights in commercial fisheries and asked them to apply their expertise to recreational fisheries and their interaction with commercial fisheries. The result is a highly readable and thought-provoking book that no one who takes an interest in this issue should miss.
— Røgnvaldur Hannesson, Norweigan School of Economics and Business Administration