Since the general extension of exclusive economic zones to 200 miles, the implementation of strong user rights in marine fisheries has become increasingly common around the world. This constitutes a major shift in the economic organization of ocean fisheries compared to the previous open access, common property regime.
It has therefore given rise to various economic and social consequences. In spite of the apparent importance of these consequences – the potential gain in economic efficiency alone is judged to be close to USD 100 billion annually (World Bank 2017), there do not appear to be any comprehensive or even systematic studies of these consequences and their costs and benefits and. As a result, even less is known about tailoring user rights to the prevailing socio-economic situation to obtain the best possible results.
The proposed project is to organize three workshops in Reykjavik, Copenhagen and Gothenburg to consider the overall advantages and disadvantages of user rights in fisheries. More precisely, the aim of these workshops is twofold. The first is to advance and systemize existing theoretical and empirical scientific knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of user rights in fisheries. The second is to identify and outline research projects to investigate more deeply crucial aspects of the topic. We hope that this will lead to more calls for international research projects in this important field. These workshops will take place during 2020 and the first half of 2021. The findings of these workshops will be made publicly available via the Internet. A collection of workshop papers dealing with the topic will be published.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, workshop meetings have been extended into 2022.
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Funding
This project is conducted with funding from the NOS-HS
