ThursdayFriday
April 29-30, 2004
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Alison RieserProfessor, University of Maine Law SchoolRights-Based Fisheries Management and the Emerging Ecosystem Approach |
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The most common form of rights-based management creates a right to fish for a portion of the allowable catch from a managed fish population. Those who are concerned about the declining integrity of marine ecosystems have expressed fear that creating and marketing these rights might elevate the extractable services of the oceans over other services such as biological diversity, making it difficult to protect non-use values and ecosystem functions by managing on an ecosystem basis. Nations that seem to be making the greatest progress in restructuring their oceans policies and institutions to reflect an ecosystems approach are those that took a more measured step in the direction of rights-based management, declining to elevate the goal of economic efficiency over preserving the natural heritage. The most enthusiastic adopters of rights-based fishing now face a host of conflicting rights claims, which appears to be delaying implementation of policies that advance the emerging ecosystem approach.
Alison Rieser is a professor at the University of Maine School of Law. Before joining the law school faculty she spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in marine policy and ocean management at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She became a full professor at Maine Law in 1993.
Her research interests include the use of property law concepts in ocean and coastal management, ecosystem approaches to fisheries regulation, and the role of science in national and international marine legal regimes.
In addition to her teaching duties, she is a consultant to state and federal agencies, faculty advisor to the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal, and an active participant in national and international discussions of marine policies. She has written and lectured extensively and is co-author of the leading casebook in ocean and coastal law. She served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas and co-authored its report, Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing Quotas (1999). In 1999, she was selected as a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, the only law professor ever to receive this honor. She has a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and law degrees from the George Washington University and Yale Law School
http://mainelaw.maine.edu/rieser.htm
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