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Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries

ISBN: 978-0-813-82028-6

November 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

360 pages

Description
Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries reviews and synthesizes the existing literature, focusing on rights-based management and the creation of economic incentives to manage transnational tuna fisheries. Transnational tuna fisheries are among the most important fisheries in the world, and tuna commissions are increasingly shifting toward this approach. Comprehensively covering the subject, Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries summarizes global experience and offers practical applications for applying rights-based management and the creation of economic incentives, addressing potential problems as well as the total level of capacity.

This reference work is divided into four parts, beginning with an overview of the book, including the issues, property rights, and rights-based management. The subsequent sections address issues arising with property rights, discuss bycatch, and cover compliance, enforcement, trade measures, and politics. Written by an expert team of international authors, Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries will appeal to social and fisheries scientists and fishery managers in universities and research institutions, government and non-governmental organizations, fisheries management bodies, members of the fishing industry, and international institutions.

About the Author
Robin Allen is the Director of Investigations of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.

James Joseph has worked for a variety of fisheries research and management organization and served as Director of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission from 1969-1999. He currently works as a private consultant on a variety of fisheries and related issues.

Dale Squires is a Senior Scientist with NOAA Fisheries in La Jolla, California; Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego; Visiting Fellow at Australian National University; and Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.