A decade of ITQ-management in Icelandic "sheries: consolidation without consensus
Icelandic "sheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for a decade but there is still no consensus about the quota issue. Distributional e!ects of ITQs, in terms of income distribution between owner and crew, and the vulnerability of "sheries communities short of qu...
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.617.467 http://people.stfx.ca/jphyne/Johns Webpage/Eythorsson.pdf |
| Summary: | Icelandic "sheries have been managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs) for a decade but there is still no consensus about the quota issue. Distributional e!ects of ITQs, in terms of income distribution between owner and crew, and the vulnerability of "sheries communities short of quota, have been in the centre of the debate. The author discusses changes in stakeholder involvement in policy-making, con#icts of interest and legal disputes linked to the ITQ-system. By way of conclusion, some options for resolving con#icts and reaching consensus on the "sheries management issue are |
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