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Innovation in Wildlife Management
Encumbering harvest rights to protect marine environments:
By Robert T. Deacon and Dominc P. Parker Abstract We adapt the concept of a conservation easement to a marine environment and explore its use to achieve conservation goals. Although marine environments generally are not owned, those who use them for commercial fishing often are regulated. These regulations grant harvesters rights to use marine environmentsContinue reading “Encumbering harvest rights to protect marine environments:”
Save the Fisheries
The world’s ocean fisheries are in decline. Since 1950, nearly 30 percent of all fisheries have collapsed, and some scientists project that in 40 years, all of the world’s fisheries could collapse.
Money Grows on Trees in New Zealand
Headlights trace the dying canopy of a stand of Pohutukawa trees. The decades-old, fourwheel- drive Range Rover slows, and a father and son disembark with their shotguns.
Evolving Approaches to Managing Marine Recreational Fisheries
Traditional regulations—such as daily bag limits and seasonal closures—are often not enough to control fishing impacts and they tend to generate greater discontent and lower economic benefits in the angling community as they become more restrictive.
Managing Marine Recreational Fisheries
Rights-based management programs work for commercial fishing, but do they have the same result with recreational fishing? Leal and Majaraj explain how rights-based management can work for recreational fishermen as well.
Many private landowners nurture public wildlife
Great Falls Tribune October 16, 2008 Reader comments By Terry L. Anderson As sports men and women gear up for the hunting season, they are also being bombarded with information about how they should vote. At the top of the list is gun rights, but they should not forget public access and habitat protection. OnContinue reading “Many private landowners nurture public wildlife”
Snagged: Halibut Dilemma Gets Attention
Can commercial and recreational fishermen work together for conservation? Donald Leal explores the idea.
Shooting the Wild
There is a crossroads in Texas. Down along the Mexican border, in a four-county area, sits the Lower Rio Grande Valley—a merger of tropics and subtropics.
Montana, Clean and Healthful – Facts
Information Cards PERC has produced a series of information cards summarizing research on specific issues related to environmental stewardship – issues such as stream and hunting access, wildlife habitat and the public trust doctrine. The cards, accessible here online and at the Discussion Forums, give interested citizens, policy makers and candidates for public office quickContinue reading “Montana, Clean and Healthful – Facts”