Will changes to salmon industry hurt independent fishermen?

BC Business mentioned work by Peter Pearse, a professor emeritus of economics and forestry at UBC, in an article about the B.C. salmon fishery’s resistance to a market-based management system.

In the 1990s, Pearse made a recommendation about adopting individual transferable quotas while he headed the 1982 Commission on Pacific Fisheries Policy for the DFO.