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Abstracts - Tony Craig
This paper reviews the current institutional framework within Zealand’s quota management system (QMS). It provides comment as to the requirements necessary for the transfer of the fisheries management process, and discusses the design and implementation of fisheries management transfer that could be accepted and driven by the commercial seafood industry. Since the inception of the QMS there have been a range of evolutionary changes which have modified the institutional framework from which it has been built. A review of the literature has shown that these evolutionary changes were contemplated as part of the original rights based fisheries framework envisaged through the use of ITQs. It also provided a framework from which the industry could become more economically efficient. Despite the enormous strides made to externalize the fisheries management planning process, for the QMS to continue to improve and work optimally there is a need for the devolution of fisheries management whereby rights holders accept and deliver on fisheries management outputs and outcomes. In recent years there seems to have been a slowdown in fisheries management transfer (devolution). One of the key drivers that have slowed stakeholders from fully internalizing management responsibilities has been the hurdles they face within the current institutional framework. To encourage development of stakeholder led fish plans that will provide immediate response to concerns within a fishery requires an institutional framework that will enable stakeholders to take responsibility to manage a fishery on their own.
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