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From small-scale to large-scale and artisanal to industrial fisheries, fishing rights are being used in a diverse range of fisheries. The only comprehensive online database of rights-based management programs, this tool allows visitors to search programs by keyword, world region, species, gear type and additional helpful terms. If you have suggested additions for the database, please let us know.

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  • Argentine Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • Argentine Patagonian Scallop Fishery
  • Australian Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop Fishery
  • Australian Coral Sea Sea Cucumber Fishery
  • Australian Heard Island and McDonald Island Fishery
  • Australian Macquarie Island Toothfish Fishery
  • Australian New South Wales Abalone Fishery
  • Australian New South Wales Lobster Fishery
  • Australian Queensland Commercial Crayfish and Rocklobster Fishery
  • Australian Queensland Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery
  • Australian Queensland East Coast Beche-de-mer (Sea Cucumber) Fishery
  • Australian Queensland Finfish Trawl Fishery
  • Australian Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery
  • Australian Queensland Trochus Fishery
  • Australian Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery
  • Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Abalone Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Banded Morwong Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Scallop Fishery
  • Australian Tasmanian Shellfish Fishery
  • Australian Victorian Abalone Fishery
  • Australian Victorian Rock Lobster Fishery
  • Australian Victorian Scallop Fishery
  • Australian Victorian Western Zone Giant Crab Fishery
  • Australian Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery
  • Canadian American Plaice Fishery
  • Canadian Argentine Fishery
  • Canadian Atlantic Snow Crab Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Geoduck Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Green Sea Urchin Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Dogfish Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Halibut Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Inside Rockfish Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Lingcod Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Outside Rockfish Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Hook and Line Sablefish Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Groundfish Trawl Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Herring Spawn on Kelp Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Red Sea Urchin Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Roe Herring Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Sardine Fishery
  • Canadian British Columbia Sea Cucumber Fishery
  • Canadian Capelin Fishery
  • Canadian Cod Fishery
  • Canadian Greenland Halibut Fishery
  • Canadian Gulf of St. Lawrence Herring Large Purse Seine Fishery
  • Canadian Gulf Shrimp Fishery
  • Canadian Jonah Crab Fishery
  • Canadian Lake Winnipeg Sauger Fishery
  • Canadian Lake Winnipeg Walleye Fishery
  • Canadian Lake Winnipeg Whitefish Fishery
  • Canadian Maritimes Fixed Gear <45 (Community Cooperatives)
  • Canadian Northern Shrimp Fishery
  • Canadian Nova Scotia Shrimp Fishery
  • Canadian Nunavut Offshore Turbot and Shrimp Fishery
  • Canadian Scotia-Fundy Atlantic Herring Purse Seine Fishery
  • Canadian Scotia-Fundy Inshore Mobile Gear Groundfish Fishery
  • Canadian Scotian Shelf and Southern Grand Banks Atlantic Halibut Fishery
  • Canadian Sea Scallop Fishery
  • Canadian Silver Hake Fishery
  • Canadian Swordfish Fishery
  • Canadian Yellowtail Flounder Fishery
  • Chilean Anchoveta Fishery
  • Chilean Camaron Nailon (Nylon Shrimp) Fishery
  • Chilean Congrio Dorado (Pink Cusk-Eel) Fishery
  • Chilean Jurel (Jack Mackerel) Fishery
  • Chilean Langostino Amarillo (Yellow Prawn) Fishery
  • Chilean Langostino Colorado (Red Prawn/Squat Lobster) Fishery
  • Chilean Merluza Comun (Common Hake) Fishery
  • Chilean Merluza de Cola (Patagonia Grenadier) Fishery
  • Chilean Merluza de Tres Aletas (Southern Blue Whiting) Fishery
  • Chilean Merluza del Sur o Austral (Southern Hake) Fishery
  • Chilean National Benthic Resources Territorial Use Rights for Fishing Program
  • Chilean Sardina Comun (Common Sardine) Fishery
  • Chilean Sardina Espanola (South American Pilchard) Fishery
  • Cook Islands Trochus Fishery
  • Croatian Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Fishery
  • Danish Demersal Transferable Fishing Concession
  • Danish Pelagic Transferable Fishing Concession
  • Dutch Cutter (Beam Trawl) Individual Transferable Quota
  • Eastern Canadian Offshore Lobster Fishery
  • Estonian Offshore Cod Fishery
  • Estonian Offshore Herring and Sprat Fishery
  • Falkland Islands Patagonian Toothfish Fishery
  • Fijian Customary Qoliqoli User Rights System
  • French Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Individual Vessel Quota Program
  • French Great Atlantic Scallop Fishery
  • French Kerguelen Islands Patagonian Toothfish Fishery
  • Greenland Shrimp Fishery
  • Icelandic Individual Transferable Quota System
  • Italian Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Individual Vessel Quota Program
  • Italian Clam Management Consortia
  • Japanese Common Fishing Rights System
  • Latvian Herring and Offshore Fishery
  • Lithuanian Offshore Fishery
  • Maltese Bluefin Tuna Fishery
  • Mexican Almeja generosa del Alto Golfo
  • Mexican Baja California FEDECOOP Benthic Species Territorial Use Rights for Fishing System
  • Mexican Sociedad Cooperativa de Pescadores de la Tribu Seri, S.C.L. (Seri Shellfish Cooperative)
  • Mexican Vigía Chico Cooperative Spiny Lobster Territorial Use Rights for Fishing Program
  • Moroccan Offshore Octopus Fishery
  • Namibian Cape Rock Lobster Fishery
  • Namibian Hake Fishery
  • Namibian Horse Mackerel Fishery
  • Namibian Monk Fishery
  • Namibian Pilchard Fishery
  • Namibian Red Crab Fishery
  • New Zealand Quota Management System
  • Norwegian Coastal Fleet
  • Norwegian Ocean-Going Fleet
  • Papua New Guinean Customary Marine Tenure System
  • Peruvian Anchoveta Northern-Central Stock Individual Vessel Quota Program
  • Polish Cod Fishery
  • Polish Salmon Fishery
  • Portuguese Hake Fishery
  • Portuguese NAFO Individual Vessel Quotas
  • Portuguese Swordfish Fishery
  • Russian Azov-Black Sea Basin Fishery
  • Russian Baltic Sea Fishery
  • Russian Far Eastern Basin Coastal Fishery
  • Russian Far Eastern Basin Offshore Fishery
  • Russian Faroe Islands Pelagics Fishery
  • Russian Fishery in the Norwegian EEZ
  • Russian Greenland EEZ Fishery
  • Russian Kaliningrad (Vistula) Gulf Fishery
  • Russian Laemonema Fishery - Japanese EEZ
  • Russian Lake Peipus Fishery
  • Russian NAFO Managed Area Halibut Fishery
  • Russian NEAFC Managed Area Demersal Fishery
  • Russian Northern Barents Sea Crab and Scallop Fishery
  • Russian Northern Basin International Areas Fishery - Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission
  • Russian Northern Basin Territorial Fishery - Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission
  • Russian Pacific Salmon Fishery
  • Samoan Safata District Customary User Rights Program
  • Solomon Islands Customary Marine Tenure System
  • South African Abalone Fishery
  • South African Hake Deep Sea Trawl Fishery
  • South African Hake Handline Fishery
  • South African Hake Inshore Trawl Fishery
  • South African Hake Longline Fishery
  • South African Horse Mackerel Fishery
  • South African Large Pelagic Fishery
  • South African Patagonian Toothfish Fishery
  • South African Small Pelagic Fishery
  • South African Sole Fishery
  • South African South Coast Rock Lobster Fishery
  • South African West Coast Rock Lobster Near Shore Fishery
  • South African West Coast Rock Lobster Off Shore Fishery
  • South Australian Central Zone Abalone Fishery
  • South Australian Gulf St. Vincent Blue Crab Fishery
  • South Australian Northern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery
  • South Australian Pilchard Fishery
  • South Australian Southern Zone Abalone Fishery
  • South Australian Southern Zone Rock Lobster Fishery
  • South Australian Spencer Gulf Blue Crab Fishery
  • South Australian Western Zone Abalone Fishery
  • Spanish Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Individual Vessel Quota Program
  • Spanish Galicia Goose Barnacle Cofradía System
  • Sri Lankan Negombo Estuary Stake-Seine Fishery Cooperative
  • Swedish Demersal Fishery
  • Swedish Gullmar Fjord Cooperative
  • Swedish Pelagic ITQ
  • United Kingdom English Catch Quota Pilot Program
  • United Kingdom Scottish Catch Quota Pilot Program
  • United States Alaska Halibut and Sablefish Fixed Gear Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Atlantic Sea Scallop Individual Fishing Quota Program - Limited Access General Category
  • United States Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program
  • United States Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Non-Pollock (Amendment 80) Cooperative Program
  • United States Bering Sea Pollock Conservation Cooperative American Fisheries Act Program - All Sectors
  • United States Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Cooperative Program
  • United States Delaware Commercial Black Sea Bass Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Gulf of Mexico Commercial Grouper and Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Gulf of Mexico Commercial Red Snapper Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Maryland Black Sea Bass Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Maryland Summer Flounder Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Mid-Atlantic Golden Tilefish Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Northeast Multispecies Sector Management Program
  • United States Pacific Coast Groundfish Limited Entry Trawl Individual Fishing Quota Program
  • United States Pacific Sablefish Permit Stacking Program
  • United States Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative Program
  • United States Pacific Whiting Mothership Cooperative Program
  • United States South Atlantic Wreckfish Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Virginia Black Sea Bass Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Virginia Commercial Striped Bass (Rockfish) Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Western Alaska Community Development Quota Program
  • United States Wisconsin Great Lakes Individual Transferable Quota Program
  • United States Yaquina Bay Roe-Herring Cooperative Program
  • Vanuatuan Customary Marine Tenure System
  • Vietnamese Ben Tre Hard Clam Cooperatives
  • Western Australian Abalone Fishery
  • Western Australian Pearl Fishery
  • Western Australian Shark Bay Snapper Managed Fishery
  • Western Australian South Coast Purse Seine Managed Fishery

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