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Collective Share Quotas and Fishermen Organizations Role in Ex-Vessel Price Determination

Creator:

Quezada, Felipe, Luzardo, Ivan, Dresdner, Jorge, and Pena-Torres, Julio

Abstract:

This paper analyses evidence about fishermen collectively organized bargaining over ex-vessel prices with a monopsony-like buying sector. Government allocation of collective catch quotas to fishermen organizations triggered the voluntary formation of cooperative fishermen’s bargaining associations, while a highly concentrated processing sector started behaving as a countervailing monopsony. This drove ex-vessel...

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