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Avoidance Strategies and Governmental Rigidity: The Case of the Small-Scale Shrimp Fishery in Two Mexican Communities

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dc.contributor.author Vasquez-Leon, Marcela en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:31:19Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:31:19Z
dc.date.issued 1995 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-09-18 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-09-18 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/654
dc.description.abstract "Hardin's 'tragedy of the commons' has been one of the most popular theories used in explaining the problems of fisheries resources. Basically, the problem of overcapitalization, overexploitation and overexpansion that typify many of the world's fisheries today are blamed on their status as common property resources. The most accepted recommendation by fishery managers to deal with these problems has been to specify property rights to the resource in such a way as to limit the level of fishing effort. Governmental inteivention has been perceived as crucial to 'impartially' define those rights by regulating access to resources and the behavior of individuals. Accordingly, states have spent enormous efforts at devising regulations to limit access in the belief that such efforts will lead to greater conservation. All over the world, however, we find that regulatory strategies developed by governments have failed. One of the critical issues in explaining such results concerns the high enforcement costs and intrinsic difficulties involved in supervising the exploitation of marine resources." en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject shrimp en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject compliance en_US
dc.subject rules en_US
dc.subject local knowledge en_US
dc.title Avoidance Strategies and Governmental Rigidity: The Case of the Small-Scale Shrimp Fishery in Two Mexican Communities en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region Central America & Caribbean en_US
dc.coverage.country Mexico en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates May 24-28, 1995 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bodoe, Norway en_US


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