Taking Ownership
Taking Ownership: Property Rights and Fishery Management on the Atlantic Coast, features contributions from some of the world's foremost fisheries experts, the book examines Canada current fisheries regime - based chiefly on common property, and government regulations and enforcement - and the emerging alternative, based on the establishment of property rights in the fisheries, usually through individual transferable quotas.
Gassing up the welfare trap machine
Ottawa-bashing, long a favourite local sport, is about to be given a new lease on life by offshore natural gas. At least that is where we seem to be headed in the controversy about how the tax revenues from this natural resource should be shared between Ottawa and Nova Scotia.
Unite what right?
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Government can’t fill this bottomless pit
Don Cayo on the state of the coal industry in Nova Scotia in 1996. He says "There is no way to make everyone happy. But there is a way to get better bang for the very big bucks already committed to compensate for closing the mines. If the federal government was smart -- and I see too little evidence that it is -- it would learn a lesson from the disastrous TAGS program it implemented and then extended after the collapse of East Coast groundfish stocks in 1991."
Allocating the Catch Among Fisherman
One of Canada's most recognised authorities in natural resource management, provides an illuminating look at the history of Individual Transferable Quotas and other forms of property in the fishery, the present position, and suggests thoughtful principles to guide decision makers into the future.