Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse?

Recent reports suggest that most of the world's commercial fisheries could collapse within decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions remains rare. Bioeconomic theory and case studies suggest that rights-based catch shares can provide individual inc...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 321; no. 5896; p. 1678
Main Authors:	Costello, Christopher, Gaines, Steven D, Lynham, John
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 19.09.2008
Subjects:	Animals Biodiversity Databases, Factual Ecosystem Fisheries - economics Fisheries - methods Fisheries - statistics & numerical data Fishes Humans Motivation Population Dynamics Regression Analysis
ISSN:	1095-9203, 1095-9203
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