ABSTRACT
The allocation of fishing quotas is usually made on the basis of the past catch history of fishing vessels and awarded to the owners of those vessels. The aim of doing it this way is to ‘preserve the status quo of a fishery and to gain the support of the industry’ (Bess 2005: 340). But this ‘allocation by grandfathering’ means that those who caught the most fish, and were least sustainable in their fishing practices, are rewarded with the largest quotas.
