Evolving Approaches to Managing Marine Recreational Fisheries

Donald R. Leal is a senior fellow and Research Director for the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC). Vishwanie Maharaj is an economist in the Gulf Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund.

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