Alaska: Equity And Access To Fishing Rights: Exploring The Community Quota Program In The Gulf ...

Alaska: Equity And Access To Fishing Rights: Exploring The Community Quota Program In The Gulf Of Alaska Courtney Carothers, 2011   The right to fish has been privatized for most commercial fisheries in Alaska. Policies that limit and commodify fishing rights have had disproportionately negative effects on certain communities and certain groups of participants. For a complex set of reasons, small, remote, primarily indigenous fishing communities in Alaska tend to be disadvantaged by the...

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