Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center
2002 Awarded Research Projects
Producer cooperative and producer organizations
Award: $25,000
Estimated Completion: August 31, 2003
Abstract
"Fisheries self-governance" refers to formal and informal arrangements under which groups of fish harvesters are creating organizations and writing contracts to govern themselves, with and without formal recognition by government management agencies. These include cooperatives, formal contractual agreements, industry-only management committees, and (in some cases) informal agreements. The Bering Sea pollock co-ops represent the most significant example of fisheries self-governance in the United States. However, there are numerous other cases of fisheries self-governance around the world. The goal of this project is to bring together information about this important trend in fisheries management and disseminate it among industry, fishery managers, and the academic community.
In 2001 I submitted a proposal to PCCRC, together with Professor Ralph Townsend of the University of Maine, for a project on "Producer Cooperatives and Producer Organizations: Case Studies in Private Fisheries Management" We proposed to convene a workshop of researchers who have studied industry-organized fisheries management (producer coops and similar producer organizations). We requested funding for the project of $69,901.
Subsequently, in January 2002 PCCRC awarded us $25,000 for this project, under the condition that the workshop must be held in Alaska and funding for participant travel and other workshop expenses must be raised from other agencies and interested parties. Because oftime required to seek additional funding for the project, we requested and received a no-cost time extension for the project from PCCRC.
We received additional funding ofapproximately $20,000 from the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research (lSER) for travel costs of conference participants and organizational expenditures.
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