Suzi
Kerr, Richard Newell, Jim Sanchirico. Motu Economic and Public Policy
Research Trust. Assesses the New Zealand ITQ system to identify areas
of success and/or possible improvement or expansion within it.
Highlights features of the New Zealand ITQ system that are relevant to
other potential…
(Table
of Contents; full web version not available). Norman Myers and Jennifer
Kent. Island Press in cooperation with the International Institute for
Sustainable Development. One chapter of this book provides a quick
overview of global subsidies to fisheries and the damage they cause.
(French). Based on presentation made by David K. Schorr. The stakes in the WTO fishing subsidies negotiations are especially high for many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Increased attention to the fishing subsidies issue by capital-based ACP officials is critically needed in the…
Ronald
P. Steenblik and Gordon R. Munro, OECD Publication. This paper is an
update of one prepared for the First Workshop of the EU Concerted
Action on Economics and the Common Fisheries Policy, 28-30 October
1998. Like that paper, it surveys current international work in the
area of subsidies to…
Donald
Leal, Property and Environment Research Center Publication. Guide
argues that rights-based fishing policies, including individual
transferable quotas, territorial rights and private harvesting
agreements can reduce the costly and destructive "race to fish".
Limited discussion of some of the…
WWF
Publication. Despite the positive role that the World Trade
Organization could play in controlling fisheries subsidies, the paper
argues that negotiators have not yet made conservation and sustainable
development real priorities.
Anthony
Cox, OECD Publication. Provides details of the OECD's work on
government financial transfers to fisheries, particularly in terms of
definition, collection, use and dissemination.
Matteo
Milazzo, World Bank Technical Paper. Study examines the role of
subsidies in generating fishing capacity far in excess of biological
productive capacity.
Ronald
P. Steenblik, OECD Publication. Historical review of multilateral
efforts since 1940 to reduce, eliminate, prohibit or otherwise
discipline subsidies. Covers three natural-resource based industries:
farming, coal mining and fishing.
(DOC).
John Virdin with David Schorr. WWF Technical Paper. Data
synthesis provides comprehensive collection and review of data on
fishing subsidies published to date, including review of Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) and OECD reports. Presents new evidence
that collective subsidies from…
