Recombination: Mechanisms, Pathways, and Applications

Abstract

The panel assembled for this session was opened by S. M. Garcia with a general presentation of the conceptual and practical interplay between allocation and conservation and its consequences in fisheries. The presentations dealt with 1) a methodology to estimate the socially optimal allocation among competing recreational and commercial subsegments of fisheries, presented by P. McCleod (Australia); 2) the role of allocation in integrated fisheries management in an Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) framework in Australia, presented by P. Rogers (Perth, AU); 3) the performance of the Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system in relation to equity objectives in postapartheid South Africa, presented by M. Hara (Capetown, ZA); 4) a comparative analysis of performance of two systems of allocation in Alaska and Antarctic fisheries, presented by M. Lundsten (Seattle, WA); and 5) the role of a scientific advisory body (the European Inland Fishery Advisory Commission, EIFAC) in resources conservation by Mueller (Switzerland).