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By Kurt Erik Schnier
The evidence is in: Catch shares and other rights-based fisheries management programs work. They work on a number of dimensions – longer seasons, fresher product, more efficient use of fishing capital and labor, increas…
Category Archive: Fisheries
Nov
01
Designing rights-based fisheries programs
Oct
26
Fencing fisheries in Namibia and beyond: Lessons from the developing world
By Laura Huggins
Summary
Thoughtful reform is unusual. PERC has explained the scope of the environmental and economic benefits that can emerge from amending the structure of a regulatory regime, but logic and evidence are rarely enough to carry the day…
May
17
Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights
Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights is the first in a series of PERC videos that will document how Free Market Environmentalism solves real-world conservation problems. Don Leal, PERC’s research director, and Mark Lundsten, a former boat captai…