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| Title: | Objectives-Based Fisheries Management; Building on 20-years Experience with Individual Transferable Quotas |
| Authors: | Peacey, Jonathan
Connor, Robin |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Invited Conference Paper |
| Abstract: | The year 2006 marked the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of the Quota
Management System (QMS) in New Zealand fisheries management. This major
institutional change made individual transferable quota (ITQ) the quantitative
authority for commercial fisheries catches, leading structural change and economic
development to transform the New Zealand fishing industry into a prosperous and
major contributor to the national economy.
In addition to being a significant anniversary for the QMS, last year also saw
significant development of a new objectives-based co-management framework by
the Ministry of Fisheries. Created to build on the strengths of the QMS, the new
approach seeks to establish a hierarchy of specified objectives for fisheries
management from overall statements of desired outcomes through to detailed
standards for processes and management performance explicitly linked through
stated intervention logic. Working to this set of objectives and standards, an
agency-facilitated stakeholder process will develop agreed management plans for
defined fisheries. Objectives must be measurable and linkages testable, with
monitoring of specified performance indicators being integral components of agreed
plans.
The new Fisheries Plan framework capitalises on the coherence brought to the
commercial sector by secure catching rights under the QMS, attempting to extend
this across the broader stakeholder community. It is endeavouring to establish a new
process model for agency-initiated co-management that has the potential to draw
diverse stakeholders together and develop common goals for management of their
fisheries.
After providing a brief introduction to the New Zealand context and the QMS and its
history, this paper sets out to assess how the QMS has performed against the
assumptions that underpinned its implementation in the mid-1980s. This in turn
provides the context for the next step the development of the Fisheries Plan
framework envisioned to move the overall management system in New Zealand
forward into an era of broader stewardship of resources and environment, by all
fisheries stakeholders. This new framework and the progress thus far are briefly
described. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/10117 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2007>2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand |
| Total Pages: | 19 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 2007 Conference (51st), February 13-16, 2007, Queenstown, New Zealand
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