A requiem for the IFQ in US fisheries?

• Main Authors: Criddle, Keith R., Macinko, Seth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Pacific; Narrows The; Ocean quahog
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308-597X(00)00025-7

Despite their apparent economic benefits to harvesters, individual fishing quotas (IFQs) have only been adopted in three US fisheries: Mid-Atlantic surf clam and ocean quahog; South Atlantic wreckfish; and, North Pacific halibut and sablefish. During the 1996 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens...