Abstract
Thirty-five years have passed since Gordon's seminal article on rent dissipation in open access fisheries. Restricted access fisheries, created to solve the problem, have not been successful. Three common sources of dissipated rent are input substitution, fleet redundancy, and fleet composition. Regulators on the west coast of Canada have focused on finding solutions for the first source. This paper questions the wisdom of past policy by developing and implementing a method for measuring rent dissipation in restricted access fisheries. Results from the British Columbia salmon fishery suggest that regulators should concentrate instead on improving fleet composition and removing excess vessels.
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