Country: United States of America | Start Year: 2007
Key design elements for this program include shareholder eligibility requirements, cooperative formation, concentration caps, delivery restrictions, prohibition of discards, and sideboard limits.
Country: United States of America | Start Year: 2008
Key design elements for this program include eligibility requirements, government approved cooperative formation, concentration caps, trading restrictions, and sideboards.
The unique three-pie approach defines and assigns different types of privileges to vessel owners, crew and processor communities. An industry-funded, government-operated loan program assists new entrants and crew.
Authorized by legislative reforms, this program formalizes the customary fishing rights of native communities by allowing them to voluntarily establish and manage TURFs in traditional fishing areas.
Country: Mexico | Start Year: 1992
In recognition of its sustainability and effective management, FEDECOOP’s Baja spiny lobster fishery was awarded Marine Stewardship Council certification in 2004—the first small-scale fishery in a developing country to achieve this endo...
