Illegal fishing is a serious problem that threatens the sustainability of fisheries around the
world. Policy makers and fishery managers often rely on the imposition of strict sanctions …

Fishery rents may be dissipated across margins not well defined or controlled by an
individual transferable quota system. Collective rights–based fishery management …

This article draws on directed ethnographic research and a review of literature to explore
how the commodification of fishing rights discursively and materially remakes human-marine …

Fisheries management rights (FMRs), such as territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs), are
a promising approach for fisheries management that, if implemented on larger geographic …

Global commitments to conservation and sustainable development increasingly demand
sensitivity to the rights and territories of Indigenous peoples and local communities …

Abstract In 2011 the National Marine Fisheries Service began a systematic collection of
performance indicators for US fisheries managed under catch shares. Catch shares are a …

Food security, economic opportunities, and other benefits provided by a healthy ocean are
in jeopardy because of years of overexploitation of many fisheries, and the challenges will …

Shared natural resources are vulnerable to overexploitation. Countries have established
national borders on land and exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the world's oceans in part …

Policies to address environmental and natural resource management are often implemented
at the group level. The defining feature of such policies is that penalties or rewards are …

Rights-based fisheries management–a management system that apportions harvesting
rights of fisheries resources to individuals or groups of individuals based on pre-determined …