Donald R. Leal is a senior fellow and Research Director for the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC).Vishwanie Maharaj is an economist in the Gulf Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Here at last is a collection of workable solutions to the vexing problem of allocating the rights to recreational fishing: the remaining untamed threat to fish stocks. While the grand masters of rights allocation—Arnason, Pearse, and Leal—are here, the excitement arises from the large number of new analysts who have been attracted to this policy conundrum. This is a must read for the genuinely engaged regulator.

• 1 Table of Contents2 List of Tables and Figures3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionPart 5 I. Prospects for Recreational Fishing RightsChapter 6 1. Evolution of Property Rights: Lessons of Process and Potential for the Pacific Northwest Recreational FisheriesChapter 7 2. Recreational Fishing and New Zealand's Evolving Rights-Based System of ManagementChapter 8 3. Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?Part 9 II. Integrating Management of Commercial and Recreational FishingChapter 10 4. Allocation of Fishing Rights between Commercial and Recreational FishersChapter 11 5. Harmonizing Recreational and Commercial Fisheries: An Integrated Rights-Based ApproachPart 12 III. IFQs and the Commercial Charter Boat SectorChapter 13 6. Examining the Interface between Commercial Fishing and Sportfishing: A Property Rights PerspectiveChapter 14 7. Sports Charterboat Quota Systems: Predicting Impacts on Anglers and the IndustryPart 15 IV. Management Strategies for Saltwater AnglersChapter 16 8. Fish Harvest Tags: An Attenuated Rights-Based Management Approach for Recreational Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of MexicoChapter 17 9. Angling Management Organizations: Integrating the Recreational Sector into Fishery Management18 Index19 About the Contributors

Donald R. Leal is a senior fellow and Research Director for the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC).Vishwanie Maharaj is an economist in the Gulf Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Here at last is a collection of workable solutions to the vexing problem of allocating the rights to recreational fishing: the remaining untamed threat to fish stocks. While the grand masters of rights allocation—Arnason, Pearse, and Leal—are here, the excitement arises from the large number of new analysts who have been attracted to this policy conundrum. This is a must read for the genuinely engaged regulator.

• 1 Table of Contents2 List of Tables and Figures3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionPart 5 I. Prospects for Recreational Fishing RightsChapter 6 1. Evolution of Property Rights: Lessons of Process and Potential for the Pacific Northwest Recreational FisheriesChapter 7 2. Recreational Fishing and New Zealand's Evolving Rights-Based System of ManagementChapter 8 3. Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?Part 9 II. Integrating Management of Commercial and Recreational FishingChapter 10 4. Allocation of Fishing Rights between Commercial and Recreational FishersChapter 11 5. Harmonizing Recreational and Commercial Fisheries: An Integrated Rights-Based ApproachPart 12 III. IFQs and the Commercial Charter Boat SectorChapter 13 6. Examining the Interface between Commercial Fishing and Sportfishing: A Property Rights PerspectiveChapter 14 7. Sports Charterboat Quota Systems: Predicting Impacts on Anglers and the IndustryPart 15 IV. Management Strategies for Saltwater AnglersChapter 16 8. Fish Harvest Tags: An Attenuated Rights-Based Management Approach for Recreational Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of MexicoChapter 17 9. Angling Management Organizations: Integrating the Recreational Sector into Fishery Management18 Index19 About the Contributors

Donald R. Leal is a senior fellow and Research Director for the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC).Vishwanie Maharaj is an economist in the Gulf Oceans Program for the Environmental Defense Fund.

Here at last is a collection of workable solutions to the vexing problem of allocating the rights to recreational fishing: the remaining untamed threat to fish stocks. While the grand masters of rights allocation—Arnason, Pearse, and Leal—are here, the excitement arises from the large number of new analysts who have been attracted to this policy conundrum. This is a must read for the genuinely engaged regulator.

• 1 Table of Contents2 List of Tables and Figures3 AcknowledgmentsChapter 4 IntroductionPart 5 I. Prospects for Recreational Fishing RightsChapter 6 1. Evolution of Property Rights: Lessons of Process and Potential for the Pacific Northwest Recreational FisheriesChapter 7 2. Recreational Fishing and New Zealand's Evolving Rights-Based System of ManagementChapter 8 3. Can Transferable Rights Work in Recreational Fisheries?Part 9 II. Integrating Management of Commercial and Recreational FishingChapter 10 4. Allocation of Fishing Rights between Commercial and Recreational FishersChapter 11 5. Harmonizing Recreational and Commercial Fisheries: An Integrated Rights-Based ApproachPart 12 III. IFQs and the Commercial Charter Boat SectorChapter 13 6. Examining the Interface between Commercial Fishing and Sportfishing: A Property Rights PerspectiveChapter 14 7. Sports Charterboat Quota Systems: Predicting Impacts on Anglers and the IndustryPart 15 IV. Management Strategies for Saltwater AnglersChapter 16 8. Fish Harvest Tags: An Attenuated Rights-Based Management Approach for Recreational Fisheries in the U.S. Gulf of MexicoChapter 17 9. Angling Management Organizations: Integrating the Recreational Sector into Fishery Management18 Index19 About the Contributors