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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Knight, Peter |
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Date:
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2006 |
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Agency:
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3941
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Sector:
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Fisheries |
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Region:
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Pacific and Australia |
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Subject(s):
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common pool resources
ownership
property rights
ecology
ITQs
oysters
fisheries
justice
ethics
regimes
conservation
economic behavior
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Abstract:
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"The Bluff oyster fishery became part of New Zealand fisheries Quota Management System (QMS) in 1998 and management responsibility fell to the owners of individual transferable quota (ITQ). A group of conservation-minded Bluff oyster fishermen believe that the owners of ITQ are locked into a need for exploitation that will ultimately result in the fishery's demise. The proposition that private property rights encourage conservation through the self-interest of owners is questioned in a situation where establishing those property rights has meant the exclusion of conservation-minded fishermen. Conservation-minded fishermen play an important role in the fishery viewed as a socio-ecological system. The concept of belonging is proposed as a complement to the idea of ownership in the theory of property-rights regimes aimed at managing local resources."
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