The paper focuses on the combination of the cooperative fisheries management with the non-cooperative literature. It has important modeling contributions by creating a new framework on co-management. The structure of the model is repeated coalition game with the possibility to deviate combined with introduction of a variation of a club...
This paper is designed to “set the stage” for the Special Session on Game Theory and Fisheries. It traces the origins of the application of game theory to fisheries economics, noting that, for the first quarter of a century after the publication of H. Scott Gordon’s 1954 seminal article, the...
This paper is designed to “set the stage” for the Special Session on Game Theory and Fisheries. It traces the origins of the application of game theory to fisheries economics, noting that, for the first quarter of a century after the publication of H. Scott Gordon’s 1954 seminal article, the...
In the present paper we study effect of information uncertainty on efficiency of multispecies fishery contracts, when private harvesting costs are uncertain. A static game between a principal and two fishing fleets is considered, when fishermen are completely selective about allocation of their harvesting efforts between the commercial and non-commercial...
The management of internationally shared fish stocks is a major economic, environmental and political issue. According to international law, these resources should be managed cooperatively under international fisheries agreements (IFAs). This paper studies the formation and stability of IFAs through a coalition game that accounts for both direct consumptive values...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session presentation held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the session were 5024: Game Theory and Fisheries. The session was organized by Marko Lindroos. The report includes details of the proceedings of the...
The purpose of this paper is not to present new game theoretic results, but is rather to discuss a new and much needed research program, which is at an early stage. Progress to date will be reported upon. It is the contention of the authors that, in stark contrast to...
The paper puts forward a Bayesian Network model to study the optimal eutrophication control in coastal waters by reducing nutrient loads and removing fish biomass (bottom-up and top-down ecosystem mechanisms). The model combines an aquatic ecosystem model with an economic model and examines the economic and ecological consequences of nutrient...
We assess cod, herring, and sprat fisheries in the Baltic Sea under different salinity conditions using a bioeconomic model with simple predation functions. We compare the current fishing policy to an optimal policy under two different salinity conditions, which have a link to climate change. The fishery of these species...
Salmon is an anadromous species that during its feeding and spawning migrations is sought after catch for commercial and recreational fisheries. The management of salmon fisheries is complicated by the combination of mixed and single stock fisheries. Thus, the country of origin has sovereign control over harvest of a salmon...
In the Baltic Sea, the successful conservation of grey seals has increased seal-induced damages to the Atlantic salmon fishery. The paper addresses the conflict between the conservation of the formerly endangered species and professional fishermen whose livelihood is also regulated by fisheries management. We develop a bioeconomic model that accounts...
Conservation goals and resource use can easily conflict when externalities
exist. This is the case in the Baltic Sea with grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)
and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Both of the species have been defined
as critically endangered in the late 20th century but due to conservation
schemes, harvest...
According to international law, straddling fish stocks should be managed
co-operatively through Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
(RFMOs). This paper analyzes the stability and success of these
organizations through a game in partition function form based on the
classical Gordon-Schaefer bio-economic model. Results show that the
larger the number of fishing...
Many commercial fisheries around the world experience spatial
coexistence of species and imperfectly selective harvesting gears. This
makes these fisheries multi-product industries, that often harvest multispecies
or have a bycatch of another (maybe also valuable) species, which
may or may not be target species for another fishery. Traditional game
theoretic...