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Title: Icelandic Fisheries Management: Fees versus Quotas

Author(s): Thorvaldur Gylfason and Martin Weitzman

Publication Date: March 2003

Keyword(s): fisheries management

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: We discuss the quota system by which Iceland?s fisheries have been managed since 1984, and explore its implications for economic efficiency as well as fairness. We argue that the shortcomings of the Icelandic quota system are inherent in any type of quota system applied to high-seas fishing. Further, we find that regulating access to a limited, stochastic common-property natural resource such as Iceland?s fish by fee rather than by quota ? i.e., by relying on price incentives rather than quantitative restrictions ? would constitute a more equitable and more efficient solution to the fisheries management problem. Our argument applies to the management of all open-seas fisheries, including the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union.

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Gylfason, T and Weitzman, M. 2003. 'Icelandic Fisheries Management: Fees versus Quotas'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3849