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Renegotiating Property Rights in the Florida Golden Crab Fishery

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dc.contributor.author Crosson, Scott
dc.contributor.author Yandle, Tracy
dc.contributor.author Stoffle, Brent
dc.date.accessioned 2013-08-19T15:34:43Z
dc.date.available 2013-08-19T15:34:43Z
dc.date.issued 2013 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9058
dc.description.abstract "The golden crab (Chaceon fenneri) supports a small, economically healthy fishery in south Florida. Crabbers in the fishery have successfully protected themselves against larger outside fishing interests in the past, and management has been stable for over 15 years. Why, then, did a portion of the fleet propose shifting to individual transferable quotas (ITQs)? Our findings suggest that proponents sought ITQ management because they believed it would further limit the ability of other crabbers to enter the fishery and act as a mechanism to legally preserve the informal and formal property rights that they have previously negotiated among themselves. Opponents believed that a shift to an ITQ regime would destroy those same property rights. We explore the implications of these findings to a broader understanding of property rights and natural resource management institutions, noting that the currently existing system closely resembles a territorial use rights fishery (TURF)." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject co-management en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject property rights en_US
dc.subject ITQs en_US
dc.subject TURFs en_US
dc.title Renegotiating Property Rights in the Florida Golden Crab Fishery en_US
dc.type Journal Article 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dc.type.published unpublished en_US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.citationjournal International Journal of the Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 7
dc.identifier.citationpages 521-548
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US


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