Saving Ocean Fisheries with Property Rights is the first in a series of PERC videos that will document how free market environmentalism solves real-world conservation problems. Donald Leal, PERC’s research director, and Mark Lundsten, a former boat captain on the Bering Sea, combine research and industry experience to describe what happens when open-access fishing is replaced with catch share management. The change has brought a stunning turn about in the lives, the incomes of fishermen, and in the health of depleted fisheries.
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