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A Fractional Licensing Program for Fisheries

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  • Ralph E. Townsend

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An alternative fisheries management program, the issuance of "fractional licenses," is proposed. Management would establish a target number of licenses and determine separately how many fishers qualified for participation. Management would then issue some fraction of a license to each qualifier, such that the product of the fraction times the number of qualifiers equals the target number of licenses. To fish, a fisher would have to acquire fractions totalling 100 percent. The fractional license approach permits a clearer separation of the decisions on the total level of fishing effort and the decisions on who receives fishing rights.

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  • Ralph E. Townsend, 1992. "A Fractional Licensing Program for Fisheries," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 68(2), pages 185-190.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:68:y:1992:i:2:p:185-190
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    1. Reimer, Matthew N. & Rogers, Anthony & Sanchirico, James, 2024. "Adaptive Systems for Climate-Ready Fisheries Management," RFF Working Paper Series 24-06, Resources for the Future.
    2. Wui, Yong-Suhk & Woodward, Richard T. & Griffin, Wade L., 2004. "Economic Efficiency Of Alternative Bycatch-Reduction Policies And Bycatch Reduction Devices," 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO 20063, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

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