The Paradoxes of quotas: Norway’s experience with fisheries quotas reveals the problems peculiar to household economies

Maurstad, Anita (1999) The Paradoxes of quotas: Norway’s experience with fisheries quotas reveals the problems peculiar to household economies. Samudra Report (24). pp. 20-23. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

Designing proper procedures for regulating the relationship between fish resources and fishers is a major problem for sustainable management and development. Norway introduced individual and maximum quotas following a crisis in the cod fisheries in 1990. For equity reasons, quotas were distributed on the perceived neutral basis of vessel length. However, the fishing pattern of small-scale fishers shows no clear relation between vessel length and annual catches. Small-scale fisher adaptations to this new regime provide an interesting exposure of how quotas work in a household economy.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0300
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Norway, Quotas, Individual Transferable Quotas, Fisheries Management, Total Allowable Catch, Fish Catch, Fisheries Statistics
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2021 11:39
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 14:20
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/691

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