Institutional and Jurisdictional Constraints in Fisheries Management

Abstract

"Marine fisheries are a common property resource which, because of the special biological characteristics of the resource, must be managed in multiple and often antagonistic jurisdictions. To clarify the management options peculiar to fisheries resources, a typology of common property resources is developed. The typology is then applied to Chesapeake Bay fisheries as a demonstration of the typology's usefulness in examining institutional arrangements in fisheries management."