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From Theory to Practice: Maine's New Approach to Lobster Management

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dc.contributor.author Taylor, Laura en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:37:43Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:37:43Z
dc.date.issued 1998 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2001-07-02 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2001-07-02 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1557
dc.description.abstract "In 1995, the Maine State Legislature approved a plan by the Department of Maine Resources and the lobster industry to design a new approach to lobster management which transfers limited management responsibility to local Lobster Policy Management Councils. Many lessons have been learned over the past two years of implementing this landmark legislation. This paper presents a state government perspective on how Maine's new lobster management law is being implemented and what challenges lay ahead for further development of this co-management system. First, there will be a brief discussion of Maine's lobster fishery and the history that has brought us to where we are in 1998. Following this description, I will make some observations on how this new cooperative management approach is working. My comments are drawn from the experiences of the two area coordinators who work most closely with the industry and from comments received during a day-ling workshop held in March 1997 that reflected on cooperative management approaches in Maine's lobster, sea urchin, and soft-shell clam fisheries. This paper discusses the lobster case because it is an example of formal power-sharing among the legislature, the state regulatory agency and the industry members. It is truly a cooperative management scheme with both responsibility and authority being shifted to more local and non-traditional units of governance." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject common pool resources--case studies en_US
dc.subject lobster--policy en_US
dc.subject co-management en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.title From Theory to Practice: Maine's New Approach to Lobster Management en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region North America en_US
dc.coverage.country United States
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Crossing Boundaries, the Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 10-14 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Vancouver, BC, Canada en_US
dc.submitter.email hess@indiana.edu en_US


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