AUTHORS:
| Fisheries Policy Issues | Colin Roberts | Lecturer in Economics, University of Edinburgh |
| Fish Stocks and Fisheries | Sir Gerald Elliot | former Chairman of Christian Control Salvesen |
| Locke or Hobbes: a Choice or Are We Managing ? |
Neil McKellar | Chief Economist, Sea Fish Industry Authority |
| U.S. Fisheries Management: the Coase Theorem and Individually Transferable Quotas |
Gordon Brady | Snr.Research Fellow, Centre for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, U.S.A. |
| Changing Fisheries Policy | Vince McEwan | formerly Assistant Secretary to Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department |
Fishing and Fisheries are recognised as vital resources in the UK, and Scotland in particular. How does current policy stimulate or repress our rights? In the heat of international debate the latest Hume Paper explains and discusses the control of an exhaustible resource.
The publication also coincides with the recent White Paper on Devolution for Scotland. It is proposed that the new Scottish Parliament (subject to suitable co-ordination of UK obligations) will have legislative power over
salmon and freshwater fisheries and aquaculture
How will a Scottish Parliament shape our future in this area?
These papers look at the impact of policies in the UK and internationally at a particularly crucial time in the development of global solutions. What are the long term policy alternatives?
- Colin Roberts addresses the underlying economic principles concerning the control of a renewable but exhaustible resource.
- Sir Gerald Elliot’s paper is a version of the evidence he presented in l995 to the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology when it was considering fish stock conservation and management. It draws on the experience of the whaling industry and offers several concrete proposals for reform.
- Neil McKellar considers one of these control mechanisms - the individual transferable quota - in considerable detail and draws on experience of its application across the world as well as spelling out important theoretical considerations.
- Gordon Brady offers a North American perspective and discusses the operation of fisheries control in the USA.
- Vince McEwan’s view is a long term and speculative discussion of the future of the fishing industry, considering the trend in consumer dietary tastes, lessons to be learned from fish farming production techniques and the scope for deployment of new technologies in enforcement of regulations.
Price: £9.95 - available from the publishers: Edinburgh University Press
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