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In this chapter, the author studies and analyzes the Icelandic ITQ system as a work in process and progress. In Iceland, ITQ policies for commercial fisheries have, from the very beginning, been mixed up in an unstable play of demersal harvest rights allocations and reallocations by the State. The numerous reallocation policies that have successively reshaped rights distributions since 1991 are a very stimulating object for anyone interested in the study of marine resource management in theory and practice. The ethnographic study of such an unstable resource management system is very challenging: a methodology had to be elaborated which would suit the study of an object which involved a number of different parameters and kept evolving very quickly. Far from having being adapted from theory, Iceland’s ITQ system must be understood as a 100% homemade system constantly adapted to social demand. The aim of this chapter will be not to establish whether ITQs in Iceland have been a success or not but rather to point out how public authorities and stakeholders interacted and coped with the ITQ system to reshape and re-define it in various contexts.
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This article is dedicated to Aliette Geistdoerfer (1943–2015), pioneer in the field of maritime anthropology in France.
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Mariat-Roy, E. (2018). In the Wake of ITQs in Iceland, 1991–2011: A Dynamic Approach to Marine Resource Management Policies. In: Winder, G. (eds) Fisheries, Quota Management and Quota Transfer. MARE Publication Series, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59169-8_5
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