Catch shares are a system of fishery management. In this system, the right to harvest a specific geographic area, or a specific portion of a fishery's total allowable catch, is assigned to particular individuals or groups. Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) are one type of catch share: they are portions of a total allowable catch that can be bought, sold, or transferred to other individuals. The list below offers a primer on the concepts of catch shares and ITQs, how these concepts fit into ecosystem-based management, and how catch shares perform as a real-world fishery management tool.
Blogs
MEAM articles
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Are catch shares compatible with ecosystem-based management? Experts respond
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Tundi’s Take: Can anything as narrow as catch shares propel us toward EBM?
Literature
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Tradable permit programs: What are the lessons for the new Alaska halibut catch sharing plan?
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Design or pragmatic evolution: applying ITQs in EU fisheries management
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The evolution of New Zealand's fisheries science and management systems under ITQs
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Property Rights in Fisheries: How Much Can Individual Transferable Quotas Accomplish?
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Improving or overturning the ITQ system? Views of stakeholders in Icelandic fisheries
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Individual transferable quotas and ecosystem-based fisheries management: it's all in the T