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How Do Individual Transferable Quotas Affect Marine Ecosystems?
The ecological and biological benefits of catch shares are often studied on a fishery-by-fishery basis. This article, by Branch, T. A., provides a synthesis of a number of studies finding that ITQs (a type of catch share) have had largely positive effects on target species. Desired outcomes were connected to sustainable catch limits and effective enforcement.