Fisheries allocations for socioeconomic development: Lessons learned from the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) program

• Published in: Ocean & Coastal Management
• Main Authors: Szymkowiak, Marysia, Himes-Cornell, Amber
• Other Authors: Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer (AMURE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Western Alaska; CDQ Program; Allocations; Evaluations; Development strategies; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-01939248; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.01.014

International audience This paper presents an institutional analysis of the Western Alaska CDQ Program.Lessons learned for a CDQ-type program in the Arctic and elsewhere are presented.Allocations amongst CDQ groups should be stable, transparent and equitable.Evaluations of CDQ-type groups should be evolutionary and contextual.Residents should continually inform the groups' objectives and development strategies.