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Abstracts - Robin Connor
As competition over access increases between commercial and non-commercial users of fisheries resources, existing approaches to providing that access come under pressure. In the context of New Zealand’s ITQ based commercial regime, a seemingly obvious first base in inter-sectoral allocation is the division of the total allowable catch among the sectors. However, gaining agreement to a set of criteria that would deliver reasonable certainty over how individual fisheries would be handled has not yet been achieved. This paper argues that the focus on a single instrument in providing access to resources (dividing the TAC) does not sufficiently acknowledge either the range of values pursued in the non-commercial sector, or the restrictions on the conversion of value that define the sector. In bringing the non-commercial sectors into a management system intended to maximise net social benefit from the use of fisheries resources, a finer-grained approach is required, using a mix of management tools that can be combined to address both large scale issues of access, and more localised issues of value enhancement and inter-sectoral conflict. The paper explores scenarios for how such combinations of instruments might address management of shared fisheries in New Zealand.
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