• A New Approach to Managing Fisheries -- "Most commercial fisheries in the United States suffer from overfishing or inefficient harvesting or both. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars in potential income is lost to the fishing industry, fishing communities, and the general economy. A rights-based system could help rebuild industry profits as well as fishing stocks." (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 480 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• A Tale of Two Fisheries -- Side-by-side comparison of the New England and Australian lobster fisheries. The comparison demonstrates the advantages of property rights systems over government regulation. (Added: 27-May-2003 Hits: 277 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• An Empirical Analysis of New Zealand's ITQ Markets (Added: 22-Jul-2003 Hits: 215 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Deal Makes Alaskan Fishermen Crabby -- Washington Times (Added: 3-Dec-2003 Hits: 115 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 2) Rate It

• Environmental Defense on ITQs (Added: 22-Jul-2003 Hits: 298 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Fencing the Fishery - A Primer on Ending The Race for Fish -- Decades of governmental intervention to protect fisheries along the U.S. coast and throughout the world have failed. The good news is that there is a way to help our fisheries overcome their problems. In this guide, Donald R. Leal shows how rights-based fishing policies, including individual transferable quotas, territorial rights and private harvesting can reduce the costly and destructive race to fish. (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 220 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It

• Fishing For Solutions -- While dramatic stories of the depletion of the world’s fish stocks frequently grab the spotlight in the popular press, reports of the death of fishing have been exagggerated. Stock of some species of fish, however, have been seriously depleted. As long as fishery managers and policy makers fail to recognize just why these problems exist, both fish stocks and the people who depend on them will suffer. (Added: 19-May-2003 Hits: 251 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• IEA Study: How Iceland Conserves Fisheries -- Starting in 1979, the Icelandic government gradually introduced a system of individual transferable share quotas (ITQs), which essentially give boat owners the right to catch a specific proportion of the total allowable catch of certain species. (Added: 20-May-2003 Hits: 189 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• IFQs ARE NOT A FISH STORY -- The Weekly Standard (Added: 31-May-2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• IFQs Project -- IFQs for Fisheries (Added: 8-Apr-2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Individual Fishing Quotas Fact Sheet -- What are individual fishing quotas, and how can they help both fish and fishermen? (Added: 23-May-2003 Hits: 401 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in Icelandic Fisheries -- Details the successes of Iceland's ITQ system. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 219 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in New Zealand Fisheries -- Details the successes of New Zealand's ITQ system. (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 146 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• Individual Transferable Quotas in Fishery Management -- "ITQ programs are intended to reduce overcapitalization, promote conservation of stocks, improve market conditions, and promote safety in the fishing fleet. ITQ programs guarantee a share of the catch, thus generally slowing or eliminating the 'race to fish' and allowing fishermen flexibility over the rate and timing of their fishing." (Added: 15-May-2003 Hits: 263 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

• ITQ library (Added: 26-Jun-2003 Hits: 232 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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