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Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries: WORKING PAPER

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This record describes, and links to a working paper published through the Economics and Environment Network at The Australian National University in Canberra.

The failures of traditional target-species management have led many to propose an ecosystem approach to fisheries to promote sustainability. The ecosystem approach is necessary, especially to account for fishery-ecosystem interactions, but by itself is not sufficient to address two important factors contributing to unsustainable fisheries - inappropriate incentives bearing on fishers, and the ineffective governance that frequently exists in commercial, developed fisheries managed primarily by total harvest limits and input-controls. We contend that much greater emphasis must be placed on fisher motivation when managing fisheries. Using evidence from more than a dozen ?natural experiments? in commercial fisheries, we argue that incentive-based approaches that better specify community, individual harvest, or territorial rights and also price ecosystem services - coupled with public research, monitoring and effective oversight - promote sustainable fisheries.

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Title Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries: WORKING PAPER
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/8bc70ea4-aca7-44a9-83d4-b687d3f53ce2
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Australian Ocean Data Network
quentin.grafton@anu.edu.au
Reference Period 14/08/2024
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries: WORKING PAPER". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/incentive-based-approaches-to-sustainable-fisheries-working-paper1