Social and economic consequences of 40 years of Dutch quota management

The Netherlands was one of the first nations to introduce ITQs in their fisheries to manage national yearly Total Allowable Catches (TACs). These ITQs have gradually developed from an individual quota system in 1976 to an ITQ system in the 1980s. In 1993 the system was reformed into a co-management...

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Published in:Marine Policy
Main Authors: Hoefnagel, Ellen, de Vos, Birgit
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Co-management
Dutch fisheries policy
Economic change
ITQs
Social change
First Nations
Online Access:https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/social-and-economic-consequences-of-40-years-of-dutch-quota-manag
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.09.019
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Summary:The Netherlands was one of the first nations to introduce ITQs in their fisheries to manage national yearly Total Allowable Catches (TACs). These ITQs have gradually developed from an individual quota system in 1976 to an ITQ system in the 1980s. In 1993 the system was reformed into a co-management system. In this paper it is argued that many of the usual negative socio-economic consequences of ITQs mentioned in the literature have been largely absent, due to the embeddedness of ITQs in co-management arrangements. However, cracks have appeared lately in this combined management system, allowing an identification of its vulnerabilities. These findings show that the social and economic structure of Dutch fisheries is changing from a rather cooperative to a more competitive and exclusive system, more like conventional ITQs.

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