Advice by fisheries scientists to reduce catches or effort is often not fully implemented and efforts to increase impact of advice have often failed. Fisheries scientists rarely discuss the potential contribution of economic instruments to improving the impact of science advice. This paper rejects several possible justifications for the absence of discussion on economic instruments in fisheries science advice. It then highlights how two types of economic instruments, allocation of property rights and eco-certification, may promote the same changes in fisheries exploitation rates and ecosystem impacts that science advisors recommend on biological grounds. It concludes with a consideration of how science advice could include a discussion of such instruments without having the advice from fisheries scientists and ecologists affect social and economic policy any more than advice on tools like marine protected areas or quota reductions do at present.
Download Info
To download:
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the
proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained
in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read
the IDEAS help
page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS
site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version under "Related research" (further below) or search for a different version of it.
Volume (Year): 7 (2007) Issue (Month): 2 (January) Pages: 191-204 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
(with abstract),
plain text
(with abstract),
BibTeX,
RIS (EndNote, RefMan, ProCite),
ReDIF