Allocation of fishing rights to support local fishermen in South Africa's Western Cape

• Main Authors: Janssen, Ron, Joubert, Alison R., Stewart, Theodor J.
• Other Authors: Mohammed, E.Y.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2013
• Subjects: Hake; New Zealand; Tac; Iceland
• Online Access: https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/fb5621b5-8a81-449d-a7e4-a22c9a6f0394; https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203728345-17; http://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/fb5621b5-8a81-449d-a7e4-a22c9a6f0394; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920391875&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84920391875&partnerID=8YFLogxK; https://www.routledge.com/Economic-Incentives-for-Marine-and-Coastal-Conservation-Prospects-Challenges/Mohammed/p/book/9780415855983

Fisheries resources are vulnerable to over-exploitation, in large part because of their open-access nature. For long-term ecological and socio-economic sustainability, fisheries therefore need to be regulated by limiting Total Allowable Catches (TAC) and/or Total Allowable Effort (TAE). It can be arg...