TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenging quota market efficiencies: A case-study of Scotland (United Kingdom)
AU - Cross, Helen
N1 - Funding Information:
This study does not represent the interests of any members of Scotland's Fishing Industry and was made possible through an internally funded post-doctoral research position. Sincere thanks, are extended to colleagues at Heriot-Watt University and two anonymous reviewers reviewers for thieir their written insights on an earlier.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - Exploring fisheries access through the lens of market-based policies, this study investigates complexities surrounding the temporary accumulation or dispensation of quota units, which define rights to land catch in UK commercial sea-fishing. The study examines quota transaction behaviours from Scotland’s ten industry membership groups, known as Producer Organisations (POs), by analysing their annual ‘Production and Marketing Plans’. Integrating data from the government Fixed-Quota Allocation (FQA) database, and official ‘quota-use’ records, the analysis pieces together previously ‘unknown knowledge’ surrounding quota exchanges, in the UK offshore pelagic and whitefish sectors. Leasing and barter transactions are pervasive among those with access to quota, although a core-group of POs dominate pelagic opportunity. These dynamics suggest consolidation to a point of inefficiency, given the dependence of marginal POs in Scotland's rural areas upon marine fisheries capture and processing. Inclusive participatory scenario-modelling techniques may now offer equitable options, in a new era of fisheries management.
AB - Exploring fisheries access through the lens of market-based policies, this study investigates complexities surrounding the temporary accumulation or dispensation of quota units, which define rights to land catch in UK commercial sea-fishing. The study examines quota transaction behaviours from Scotland’s ten industry membership groups, known as Producer Organisations (POs), by analysing their annual ‘Production and Marketing Plans’. Integrating data from the government Fixed-Quota Allocation (FQA) database, and official ‘quota-use’ records, the analysis pieces together previously ‘unknown knowledge’ surrounding quota exchanges, in the UK offshore pelagic and whitefish sectors. Leasing and barter transactions are pervasive among those with access to quota, although a core-group of POs dominate pelagic opportunity. These dynamics suggest consolidation to a point of inefficiency, given the dependence of marginal POs in Scotland's rural areas upon marine fisheries capture and processing. Inclusive participatory scenario-modelling techniques may now offer equitable options, in a new era of fisheries management.
KW - Fixed Quota Allocation (FQA)
KW - Lease quota
KW - Market efficiencies
KW - Producer Organisation (PO)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100148962&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104384
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104384
M3 - Article
SN - 0308-597X
VL - 126
JO - Marine Policy
JF - Marine Policy
M1 - 104384
ER -
