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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

Enclosing the Commons

Individual Transferable Quotas in the Nova Scotia Fishery

by (author) Richard Apostle, Bonnie McCay & Knut H. Mikalsen

Publisher
Memorial University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2002
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919666870
    Publish Date
    Jan 2002
    List Price
    $27.95

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Description

In 1991 the Atlantic groundfish fishery in Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick experienced diminishing resources and overcapacity in the inshore mobile-gear fleet. The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans instituted individual quotas (IQs) for this sector of the fishery. Soon thereafter the IQs became individual transferable quotas (ITQs). Enclosing the Commons explores the industrial micropolitics associated with the creation of the ITQ Group and the push to reduce overcapacity through economic concentration of quota shares.

This important study provides the first critical examination of an ITQ approach to fisheries management.

About the authors

Richard Apostle is a Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. He is currently working on a project dealing with socio-economic development in the Faroe Islands.

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Bonnie McCay is Board of Governors Distinguised Professor of Anthropology and Ecology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She remains involved in some research on fishing communities in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Jersey, and their relationship to fisheries management. 

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Knut H. Mikalsen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø. He is currently engaged in research on issues of stakeholder management in European fisheries.

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Editorial Reviews

"Everyone directly involved in the design of, or research into, ITQ systems should study this book closely since it contains much important information not otherwise available outside government files."

Trevor J. Kenchington, International Journal of Maritime History