FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 571

Dale Squires
US NOAA Fisheries
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, United States of America

Robin Allen
Executive Secretary of the SPRFMO Interim Secretariat
Scientific Advisory Committee, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
Blenheim, New Zealand

and

Victor Restrepo
Board od Directors and Chair Scientific Advisory Committeee, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation
Madrid, Spain



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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome, 2013

ABSTRACT

Squires, D., Allen, R. & Restrepo, V. 2013.
Rights-based management in international tuna fisheries.
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper. No. 571. Rome, FAO. 79 pp.

This technical paper discusses rights-based management of international tuna fisheries that directly addresses the incomplete or absent property rights underlying the incentives for overfishing, overcapacity, and failure to capture the full social and economic benefits that are possible. Rights that are secure, exclusive and extend into the future can be defined over shares of total allowable catch or effort or by units of capacity, but catch shares provide the strongest and most effective right. Rights-based management creates positive incentives that end the race to fish and creates conditions for matching capacity with fishing opportunities and sustainable catches, economic efficiency, full benefits, and wealth. Transferable rights provide a means of accommodating new members and increasing fishing by small island and coastal developing States.

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