Spotlight

A common topic in fisheries management concerns whether fishing rights should be “privatized” by granting a few fishermen dedicated rights to a certain number of fish each year. This project synthesizes data on dedicated access fisheries across the globe in order to: (1) determine whether dedicated access fisheries programs lead to improved or deteriorated ecological conditions; and (2) identify what attributes of dedicated access programs, or of a fishery system itself, are most commonly associated with positive or negative impacts.