This study investigates the adjustment process of labor in the fishing industry of the Spanish regions
(Autonomous Communities). The analysis is based on a dynamic model applied to a panel of the 10
coastal regions in Spain for the period covering 1965 to 2001. A translog labor demand equation is...
En vertu du principe de préservation des stocks naturels et au delà, de la viabilité d'une industrie des pêches, l'attention des pouvoirs publics est, à l'heure actuelle, essentiellement portée sur la diminution des capacités de production[1]. Une mesure globale de ces capacités de production mises en oeuvre pour la capture...
The 2010 Annual Economic Report (AER) on the European Union (EU)
fishing fleet, due for publication in the summer of 2010, will provide the
most comprehensive overview to date on the structure and economic
performance of the EU Member States fishing fleets.
For the first time, the data used to...
In recent years, WTO constantly focuses on fishery subsidy negotiations, and since the Non-actionable subsidies have been cancelled, fishery subsidies norm is still hard to reach a consensus. Although the WTO president drafted a list of prohibitive subsidies in 2008, they have been implementing widely in most countries, especially the...
A major problem affecting world fisheries today is overcapacity of which
overfishing is both a cause and a consequence. Subsidies are now widely
perceived as an underlying cause of overcapacity, the negative
environmental, social and economic effects of which can be masked by
increasing support from the government. Subsidies that...
It is often taken for granted that taxation of rents is economically nondistortive. In certain areas of natural resource use, e.g. oil extraction and fisheries, this nondistortion principle has been used to justify taxation of what is regarded as resource rents. This paper challenges the view that such taxation is...
Economists have long promoted fishery rationalization programs, but ITQs may fail to address the
ecological consequences of fishing. Of particular concern is that economic incentives to harvest larger
fish (due to size-dependent pricing or quota-induced discarding) can destabilize fish populations or lead to
evolutionary changes. A substantial theoretical literature in...
Price instruments are rarely seen in fisheries despite their many desirable
properties. In this paper, I find new reasons to favor price instruments in a
fishery. Given constraints on information and enforcement precluding the
optimum optimorum, I consider a second-best but welfare improving
policy when catch limits cannot be enforced...
In developed – and some less-developed – societies, managing an “open access,” renewable
natural resource sector generally involves taxes, quotas, or other government or community
restrictions. But some cultures, especially in their early years, have taken a different approach,
one that involves transfer of part of the output of the...
The paper introduces and analyses first the evolution, actuality and current problems of the summer closed fishing season system of China. The summer closed fishing season system is formally actualized in 1995. Till 2006, all waters of China is managed by the very system. During summer closed fishing season of...