A Fractional Licensing Program for Fisheries
提出一种替代性渔业管理方案，即发放“分式许可证”，通过向每个合格渔民发放部分许可证，使总许可证数达到目标，从而分离总捕捞努力量决策与捕捞权分配决策。
An alternative fisheries management program, the issuance of "fractional licenses, " is proposed. Management would establish a target number of licenses and determine separately how many fishers qualified for participation. Management would then issue some fraction of a license to each qualifier, such that the product of the fraction times the number of qualifiers equals the target number of licenses. To fish, a fisher would have to acquire fractions totalling 100 percent. The fractional license approach permits a clearer separation of the decisions on the total level of fishing effort and the decisions on who receives fishing rights.