Long-term effects of group rights to fisheries: Evaluating the Western Alaska Community Development Quota program.

ABSTRACT: Restricting access to fisheries and other common property resources through creation of individual transferable rights has been documented to create wealth and promote conservation, but has also reduced employment and increased inequality in fishing communities. Creating group rights instead of individual rights has been suggested as an alternative strategy that could realize the benefits with diminished social cost; however, little independent evaluation of actual implementations of group rights to fisheries has occurred. The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) program represents an example of allocation of group fishery rights to six not-for-profit organizations representing 65 small, largely Indigenous coastal communities. Using a unique data set of individual and household

SUBMITTER: Berman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611149 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature