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Fishery collapse is a global concern, affecting world food supply,  economic prospects for fishing communities, and with plenty of  spill-over effects for marine environments and endangered species.  A  growing set of policies are being developed to address this problem:  catch quotas, gear restrictions, marine reserves, and community  management.  

However, systemic incentives...
* short-term
* souverty
* don't tell
* entrenched stakeholders
* mistrust of science
* stock uncertainty
* perverse policy incentives
* subsides: http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/press-releases/new-oceana-report-reveals-true-amount-of-eu-fishing-sector-subsidies-to-be-33-billion

This project aims to understand how cross-scale issues underlie the potential for institutional change.

# Individual incentives lead to collective tragedy.
# How do individual decision-making dynamics affect global decision-making?
# How do global decision-making dynamics affect individual decision-making?

How do I test this?  Want to observe one dynamic, and the response...

Ideas:
* How can cross-scale dynamics and definition-by-deliberation help solve the commons problem?

* How can new technology change fisheries?

[[Importance of Fisheries]]