a further objective of the reform is to make the cfp less costly and simpler to run the central role of rights based fisheries management instruments is to introduce an element of property rights for fisher s quotas by doing so the incentive structure changes and makes it more likely that fishers will seek to fish within sustainable limits in order to conserve their quota capital for the future the oecd committee for fisheries has recently contributed to this debate the publication using market mechanisms to manage fisheries provides a review of a number of fisheries management systems with elements of property rights and maps these according to their property rights content oecd the ec started this process with the publication of a green paper followed by a consultation period where written comments could be submitted until december