Feasibility of ITQs Focus of Industry Research

Are individual transferrable quotas (ITQs) really the best tool for fisheries management, or have they just become a one-size fits all solution? This was the question pursued in a paper released this summer by the University of Alaska Fairbanks entitled Moving beyond panaceas in fisheries governance. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the paper reflects a discussion by social scientists from around the world at a workshop hosted by the Institute of Arctic ...