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The Development of the Maine Lobster Co-Management Law

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dc.contributor.author Acheson, James M.
dc.date.accessioned 2010-10-29T18:53:41Z
dc.date.available 2010-10-29T18:53:41Z
dc.date.issued 2004 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6527
dc.description.abstract "In fisheries management circles, there is growing realization that traditional ways of managing marine resources are not working and that new approaches to management need to be tried. One of the most promising of these new approaches is co-management, where authority for managing fish stocks is shared between the industry and government agencies. This paper discusses the implementation of the new co-management system in the Maine lobster industry, which was initiated in 1995. The law has clearly been successful, in that lobster fishermen have been able to generate rules to constrain their own exploitive effort, which the legislature was unable to do. At the same time, a number of problems have come to the fore, not the least of which was the fact that passage of one regulatory measure caused problems for certain groups of fishermen who demanded remedial legislation. Thus, the co-management effort in Maine has moved ahead by solving a sequence of problems. But the fact that these problems are being solved places Maine in the forefront of jurisdictions experimenting with new ways to manage fisheries." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject co-management--case studies en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.subject institutional analysis en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject environmental law--case studies en_US
dc.subject lobster en_US
dc.title The Development of the Maine Lobster Co-Management Law en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region North America en_US
dc.coverage.country United States en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Workshop on the Workshop 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates June 2-6 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN en_US


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