Rethinking Property Rights: Introducing Expected Quotas for Fisheries Management under Uncertainty

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Berglann, Helge
Conference:	Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millennium, the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bloomington, IN
Conf. Date:	May 31-June 4, 2000
Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1422
Sector:	Fisheries
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Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources fisheries--policy quotas ITQs property rights uncertainty
Abstract:	"This paper proposes a new management tool called expected quotas. Each fisher is penalized if he goes beyond and rewarded if he goes below an allocated quota. The penalty is costlier than the reward. Dynamic programming calculations with uncertainties in the stock abundance estimate and fishermen's costs indicate that compared to regimes with fixed quotas, the use of expected quotas causes a substantial increase in the value of the fishery and reduces the risk of resource collapse. An efficient distribution of expected quotas is insured through a market-based system similar to the Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system."

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