Country: Japan | Start Year: 1949
This co-management system depends upon nested layers of governance between federal and prefectural government agencies and local fishing organizations. It has promoted innovation by fishermen including coordination and pooling of harvesting arrang...
Country: Chile | Start Year: 1991
Management is built on science performed by universities and consultants, resulting in co-management by the government, industry and the private sector.
Country: United States of America | Start Year: 2009
A discard prohibition and incidental tilefish catch limit for non-IFQ vessels ensure all sources of tilefish fishing mortality are accounted for.
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...
Country: Argentina | Start Year: 2010
Quota set-asides give managers the flexibility to address fishery specific social and biological goals, while the multi-criteria allocation process incentivized investment in the domestic economy and compliance with fishing regulatio...
