Fishing for common ground : broadening the definition of 'rights-based' fisheries management in Iceland's Westfjords

• Main Author: Auth, Kathleen Emery, 1985-
• Other Authors: Háskólinn á Akureyri
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Coastal and marine management; University Centre of the Westfjords; Haf- og strandsvæðastjórnun; Meistaraprófsritgerðir; Ísland; Fiskveiðistjórnun; Fiskimið; Eignarréttur; Háskólasetur Vestfjarða; Arctic; Haf; Stefansson; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/12324

Since the 1980s, so-called “rights-based” fisheries management regimes – specifically those designed to apply market forces to problems of inefficiency and overfishing by divvying up fixed, tradable proportions of a total allowable catch among individuals or cooperatives – have become both one of th...