Property rights have been introduced into fisheries as a means of improving efficiency, increasing profits and ensuring the sustainable management of fish stocks. Granting these exclusive rights to a few individuals can have negative socio-economic impacts on coastal communities. For example, property rights reduce the access of small-scale fishing communities to protected resources, which in turn increases their economic dependence on individual property owners.
Accessibility concerns in fisheries due to property rights
Property rights have been introduced into fisheries as a means of improving efficiency, increasing profits and ensuring the sustainable management of fish stocks. Granting these exclusive rights to a few individuals can have negative socio-economic impacts on coastal communities. For example, property rights reduce the access of small-scale fishing communities to protected resources, which in turn increases their economic dependence on individual property owners.
Nº 108
- Fisheries
- Conservation of Fish Stock
- Regulating Catch Limits and Methods
some attempts made
past case
Region-1
Region-2
Region-3
Region-4
ongoing case
no attempts made
None
Accessibility concerns in fisheries due to property rights
The UK experience with informal Individual Tradable Quotas (ITQs) illustrates that one of the major problems with private property rights systems is the way in which they can constrain the management powers of government by reducing the range of possible policy interventions. In the UK, it is argued that the social and economic changes under market-based management in the UK made the fisheries regulatory regime unpopular and undoubtedly contributed to the overwhelming vote within the fishing sector to leave the European Union.
- Frustrated the efforts to address the initial problem
- Cascading (far-reaching effects following each other)
Appleby, T., Cardwell, E., & Pettipher, J. (2018). Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6, 40. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.295
Appleby, T., Cardwell, E., & Pettipher, J. (2018). Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6, 40. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.295
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