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Innovation in Wildlife Management
Individual Fishing Quotas:
Last week, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council announced it will prohibit fishing in major sectors of the groundfish fishery along the Pacific Coast. Donald Leal explains how individual fishing quotas (IFQs) can solve the overfishing dilemma.
Fencing the Fishery
How rights-based fishing policies can reduce the costly and destructive race to fish.
Saving Fish and Teaching Economics
PERC Reports interviews Colorado school teacher Marc Johnson about his students’ property-rights drama.
The Role of IFQs in Improving Fishery Governance
February 13, 2002 By Don Leal Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunity for me to testify on individual fishing quotas or IFQs in relation to re-authorization of the Magnuson Stevenson Act. Because IFQs effect both structural makeup in a fishery, the subcommittee expressed interest in hearing views on aContinue reading “The Role of IFQs in Improving Fishery Governance”
Endangered Species
A new series of books for young people offers objective and balanced discussions of controversial issues.
Who Pays for Wolves?
How markets helped reduce conflict between ranchers and wolves.
Hunting for Habitat
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT In their handbook, Hunting for Habitat, Donald R. Leal and J. Bishop Grewell explore ranching for wildlife programs. Around the West, state agencies and landowners are improving both game and nongame habitat through these state-landowner partnerships. Not to be confused with game ranching, these programs help landowners manage free-roaming wild animalContinue reading “Hunting for Habitat”
Managing Africa’s Wildlife
What Zimbabwe did right.
Fisheries are Classic Example of the “Tragedy of the Commons”
How fishery management practices have lead to severely depleted fish populations.