Rebecca Lent

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore policy measures that create economic incentives not only to reduce marine mammal bycatch, but also to increase compliance and induce technological advances by fishery operators in a changing and increasingly variable environment, as regulatory measures would have to be adapted constantly to keep up with climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, bycatch conservation and management can be analyzed and implemented through the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy using one of four basic approaches: (1) private solutions, including voluntary, moral suasion, and intrinsic motivation; (2) direct or "command-and-control" regulation starting from the fishery management authority down to the vessel; (3) incentive- or market-based to alter producer and consumer behaviour and decision-making; and (4) hybrid of direct and incentive-based regulation through liability laws.

TL;DR: The three major threats to marine mammals - fishery bycatch, increasing underwater sound, and climate change could be more effectively addressed with an interdisciplinary approach that includes the full valuation of costs and benefits to society.

TL;DR: In this article, an incentive-based credit system for bycatch mitigation is proposed to change vessel behavior and decision-making and allow vessels to flexibly reduce bycatch in a vessel's own, least-cost way.

TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper provided a summary of key reflections of a panel of fisheries economists gathered at the ninth forum of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists to evaluate the policies implemented in the Upper Gulf through an economic lens and updated to reflect more recent developments.