Description

Each year, thirteen million anglers enjoy the sport of saltwater angling in the United States, generating an estimated $30 billion in sales and supporting nearly 350,000 jobs. Recreational saltwater fishing, however, can significantly impact species of concern-species overfished or experiencing overfishing. Traditional angling controls-bag and size limits and restricted seasons-have fallen short in controlling fishing impacts and reducing conflicts among fishing and non-fishing interests.

Evolving Approaches to Managing Marine Recreational Fisheries offers ways of overcoming such problems while providing anglers and the recreational service industry greater regulatory flexibility to enjoy the fruits of sportfishing. It features fourteen internationally recognized fishery experts presenting the pros and cons of using individual fishing quotas (IFQs), game tags, and angler management organizations (AMOs) in managing marine recreational fisheries, presenting both theoretical and practical solutions to help move recreational fisheries management to a new and improved level.

Table of Contents

1 Table of Contents
2 List of Tables and Figures
3 Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Introduction
Part 5 I. Prospects for Recreational Fishing Rights
Chapter 6 1. Evolution of Property Rights: Lessons of Process and Potential for the Pacific Northwest Recreational Fisheries
Chapter 7 2. Recreational Fishing and New Zealand's Evolving Rights-Based System of Management
Chapter 8 3. Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?
Part 9 II. Integrating Management of Commercial and Recreational Fishing
Chapter 10 4. Allocation of Fishing Rights between Commercial and Recreational Fishers
Chapter 11 5. Harmonizing Recreational and Commercial Fisheries: An Integrated Rights-Based Approach
Part 12 III. IFQs and the Commercial Charter Boat Sector
Chapter 13 6. Examining the Interface between Commercial Fishing and Sportfishing: A Property Rights Perspective
Chapter 14 7. Sports Charterboat Quota Systems: Predicting Impacts on Anglers and the Industry
Part 15 IV. Management Strategies for Saltwater Anglers
Chapter 16 8. Fish Harvest Tags: An Attenuated Rights-Based Management Approach for Recreational Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Chapter 17 9. Angling Management Organizations: Integrating the Recreational Sector into Fishery Management
18 Index
19 About the Contributors

Product details

Published 01 Jan 1955
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 262
ISBN 9780739130186
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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