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Limited entry will certainly affect employment.* It could 

 easily operate to decrease the number of people employed in the 

 fishing industry. Many of these people may be forced to move 

 to new areas, and get retrained in some new field. For them, 

 the monetary costs of limited entry may be very high. 



Such plans might also affect the distribution of income 

 by greatly increasing the income of those remaining in the 

 fishery, and lowering that of people who are no longer allowed 

 to fish. Most important, such management plans promise to 

 disturb the basic cultural factors in ways that pass on the costs 

 to fishermen (e.g. Acheson, 1976). In order to understand the 

 benefits which accrue from fisheries management, we need solid 

 information not only on the way management proposals will affect 

 the costs and receipts of fishermen, but also information on 

 institutional elements — the people who are supposed to benefit, 

 those who are not, perceptions of benefits, etc. 



Since the biological benefits of fisheries management 

 cannot alv/ays be gained except at the expense of social and/or 

 economic benefits, fisheries must be managed with multiple goals 

 in mind. Instead of a clear cut single objective, the fisheries 

 manager must deal in the hazy area of trade-offs. It is a world 



♦Decreasing the number of boats may decrease the total 

 number of people employed; on the other hand, a limited entry plan 

 places a premium on efficiency, and could stimulate a boat build- 

 ing boom. 



