This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016, as well as details of the proceedings of the session.
This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016, as well as details of the proceedings of the session.
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A3: Reformed CFP - Implications for Routes to Market. The session was chaired by Marcus Coleman, and the presentation was...
To examine the impact of the Landing Obligation (LO) on the Irish fishing industry and explore possible mitigation strategies, we carried out two trials on commercial fishing vessels in 2015. One vessel targeted Nephrops, the other mixed demersal whitefish in Irish waters. The study was in two phases. In month...
The contribution of aquaculture and/or fisheries to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) directly or indirectly are essential indicators for policymakers to assess the sector's economic performance and make informed policies or decisions that can affect the level of political and financial support to the sector, and hence, its development pace. Despite...
Tilapia is the world's most popular aquaculture species farmed mostly in earthen ponds. Experience in China (the largest tilapia farming country) is used to develop and calibrate a bio-economic model on intensive tilapia pond culture. The model is used to simulate the impacts of climate, technical and/or financial factors on...
The agrofood sector is the first activity of the manufacturing industry in Europe, representing 14.6% of the total revenue and a value of more than € 1,048,000 mill. in 2014. Nevertheless, this economic subbranch is characterised by lower investment in R&D,the 0.53% level in 2009, than food and manufacturing industries...
The main objective of the PrimeFish project is to consolidate and improve the economic sustainability of European fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The achievement of this goal implies a good understanding of how the seafood market is impacted by the consumer behavior and how trends in product innovation evolve. PrimeFish works...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A2: Market Implications and Possible Solutions: Certification, Ethics and Social Responsibility. The session was chaired by Maarten Mens, and the...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B2: Implementing the Landing Obligation in the Reformed CFP - Practical Challenges and Effects on Fishing Businesses - 2016 Story...
The rapid growth of aquaculture affects wild fisheries in several ways. We present a bioeconomic model of the interaction between capture based aquaculture that depending on harvest of wild juvenile organisms with a wild fishery, including an effect of marine reserve implementation. We assume the catch of wild juveniles for...
Rights based management (RBM) regimes in fisheries might prevent the rent-dissipation associated with open access as fishers are enabled to coordinate efforts. In this article, I empirically explore the effects of introducing two spatially distinct RBM reforms in the Swedish shrimp fishery at two different points in time during the...
Granting catch shares to cooperatives is a fisheries management option that has been widely applied. Although fishery cooperatives systems around the world are structured in various ways, it appears that most share the characteristic that members of the same cooperative are jointly and severally liable for not exceeding collectively assigned...
Seafish has undertaken an economic impact assessment (EIA) of the landing obligation for key UK fleets targeting demersal stocks. The purpose of the EIA is to provide information that supports decision-making and understanding at a fleet segment, home nation and national level. The EIA has been undertaken in two phases:...
There are perennial efforts in forecasting future fish supply and demand (e.g. the IFPRI Fish to 2020 model, the OECD-FAO Fish Model and the WB-IFPRI-FAO Fish to 2030 model). A panel model is developed to estimate a country's fish demand in the future. Instead of using a country's' own historical...
Species diversification in aquaculture has been driven and influenced by various factors including consumer preference, technical innovations such as advances in artificial propagation, economies of scale, risk diversification, policy orientation, among others. Global aquaculture development in general has been associated with species diversification in terms of both increasing number of...
After thirty years of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in Europe, its limitations in relation to environmental and socio-economic aspects have been well-documented. The STEFC identified some reasons that contribute to poor socio-economic performance due to environmental factors (e.g. reduced TACs and quotas for several key stocks, scarcity of some...
The world's fisheries are a critical piece of the world's food supply, providing an important source of protein for billions of people and employing millions in the process. From a human perspective, it is important that fish stocks around the globe be managed in ways that can continue to provide...
A marine protected area (MPA) is a management tool used for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries development, but it is less used for non-extractive uses of ecosystems such as eco-tourism. We estimate the willingness-to-pay for improved environmental qualities of the Nha Trang Bay MPA on one hand and employment effects...
Farmed fish products in Europe are mainly addressed to the market of live and fresh whole fishes. Only for the trout sector, due to their vertical integration, is it common to process/transform the fish, offering a wider range of products to final consumers. One key factor that makes the supply...
What is the best use of fishery performance? How can we assess progress in managing aquaculture and wild catch fisheries when a wide range of criteria is appropriate? The Australian Fisheries Research and Development Corporation funded a project in 2009 to estimate the benefits arising from managing fisheries and aquaculture...
An understanding of fishers' decisions to exit or stay in a fishery is important for developing effective policy measures. In this study, we analyze the factors influencing this decision using a large administrative database covering the entire Swedish fisher population, their family ties, and detailed labour market data spanning two...
Beam trawling on brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) is one of the most important fisheries for the German fleet. It is an open fishery without a defined quota. Indicators such as increased by-catch, a predominance of undersized shrimp in catches, and a high fishing mortality all suggest that improved gear selectivity...
In June 2015, the UN General Assembly mandated the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). The proposed ABNJ Implementation Agreement (ABNJ IA) will have implications for the conduct and regulation of high seas fisheries and...
A great number of public/private founded researches have analyzed the causal relationship among different potential drivers for prices, such as demand and supply growth, changes in prices of raw materials and other inputs as well as the policy about stocking. Some analysts suggest that recent price developments are mainly explicable...
One of the key outcomes of the Horizon 2020 PrimeFish project is the development and delivery of an innovative decision support framework (PrimeDSF) designed for public use. PrimeDSF collects and makes accessible to the scientific and other communities, economic methods, models, studies and other resources, but first and foremost a...
The concept of shared value has been defined by Porter and Cramer as those policies and operating practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing the economic and social conditions in the communities in which it operates. This concept guides a coordinated process of stakeholders' engagement to...
As part of PrimeFish project, the competitiveness of European fisheries and aquaculture will be analysed by examining the supply chain relations and regulation of selected value chains of five commoditised fish species within the EU: Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, cod, herring, sea bass and sea bream; as well as imported...
The seafood sector has been followed and presented through different data collected as for example by FAO over several years. Often these studies are globally and/or macro-oriented market and even though these studies clearly add insight and understanding they do not provide the details needed for assessing the different sectors...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A2: Market Implications and Possible Solutions: Certification, Ethics and Social Responsibility. The session was chaired by Maarten Mens, and the...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A1: Market Challenges: Ethics and Social Responsibility. The session was chaired by Dr. Tom Pickerell, and the presentation was given...
Information on the total costs associated with various types of commercial fishing businesses is vital to evaluating the economic impact of fisheries regulations and management. However, obtaining reliable cost information can present a challenge. While NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) does collect variable (trip related) costs of fishing on...
In 2009 the World Bank published a study of the economic performance of the global marine fishery pertaining to the base year 2004. The key finding of this study was that the global fishery in 2004 was economically and biologically highly inefficient. More precisely, the difference between attainable and actual...
Dominant models of harvester behavior typically focus on where or when harvesters allocate their effort within a fishery, adjusting effort on the intensive margin in response to fishing conditions and management. However, many harvesters participate in multiple fisheries during a year, and thus a major consequence of management change is...
There are only three fundamental sources for increasing seafood supply: 1) better management and utilization of wild fish stocks, 2) aquaculture and 3) aquaculture-enhanced ‘wild’ fisheries. However, nearly all of the significant growth in global seafood harvest and international trade over the past three decades has, and in the future...
Capture fisheries can potentially provide a wide range of social benefits, many of which make important contributions to local livelihoods and national economies. However, in practice, and in many representations of fisheries, the starting point for assessment is the biological, fish, element of the system and its production potential. The benefits...
Assessment studies have summarized the literature on global food security and projected impacts of climate and other major drivers of regional and global change in the 21st Century (IPCC, USDA). Additionally, the Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is working to develop new coordinated global and regional assessments of...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A3: Reformed CFP - Implications for Routes to Market. The session was chaired by Marcus Coleman, and the presentation was...
Economics and political decision making are concerned with allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. Different decisions generally have implications for economic production and distribution, society and stakeholders, and environmental systems and ecosystem services. Stakeholders often seek to influence decision processes using economic arguments about the relative values of different...
Infectious diseases continue to affect the productivity, efficiency, and consumer confidence of the aquaculture industry. This suggests that disease control remains an important area for further policy development. At the same time and contrary to terrestrial livestock enterprises, where economic incentive mechanisms have been proposed to influence behaviour change in...
The demand for fish and fish products is on the rise and being sought as a preferred alternative to other animal protein, owing to its taste, preference and proven health benefits. However the consumers’ urge in knowing the fish origin and its quality are decisive factors for determining its saleability....
The U.S. Mid-Atlantic Golden Tilefish (Lopholatilus Chamaeleonticeps) fishery, under IFQ management, is required to undergo a review every 5 to 7 years to describe and analyze the changes that have taken place in the fishery since the IFQ implementation in 2009. Standardized performance metrics are used to evaluate performance, productivity...
The quest from tourists and visitors for authentic places with a real identity can lead to an opportunity to maintain some fishing activities at the seaside. In this context, fishing activities not only provide commodity goods but also have other functions (environmental, social, and territorial, among others). In this respect,...
The value of commercial fisheries is expressed in a variety of ways in marine policy development, implementation and in individual marine proposals and consent decisions. This presentation provides a fishing industry perspective on the experiences of the delivery of Marine Protected Area and marine planning policy and licensing in the...
In late 18th century Britain, Adam Smith was the most influential thinker and writer to offer policy advice on fishery subsidies. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith scoffed at the so-called white herring bounties. He used data from 1771-1781 to argue that the bounties had raised the price of locally-caught...
The rapidly changing production processes in aquaculture has required large investments from fish framers, and over the last decades the demand for insurance to share and cover the risks involved has increased significantly within the aquaculture sector. On the other side, the availability of commercial aquaculture insurance is not widespread,...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Overfishing has been cited as a major cause of sea bass population decline and recent scientific analyses have reinforced previous concerns of unsustainable fishing advising urgently for a substantial reduction in fishing mortality. For the first time, 2013, the ICES released an analytical advice on the status of the European...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5310: Fishing Cost Data Collection and Implications in Fisheries Management. The session was organized by Minling Pan. The report includes details...
The fisheries supply chains integrate multiple and heterogeneous agents linked through commercial (buyer/seller) relationships. In a large and competitive trade market, every agent can choose his/her partners, but the functioning of the supply chain depends on the aggregation of every agent's decisions that configures the global network of relationships. In...
Fish consumption in Mexico is considered low (around 12 kg per person per year) and non-homogeneously distributed across the country. One of the reasons for this situation is the scarcity of wholesale selling sites. In this context, the Mercado del Mar (MM), located in Guadalajara city, Jalisco, is the second...
The introduction of private property rights in common pool resource systems is not occurring at random, but depends on various factors, including the state of the resource itself. This inherent endogeneity problem of policy implementation makes it difficult to make any causal inference between the regulatory regime and the state...
The presentation discusses cost data collection methods and use in support of commercial fisheries management in the Pacific Islands Region, United States. Traditionally, economic information on Pacific Island fisheries was limited primarily to the dockside value of landed fish. Data on fishing expenses were obtained intermittently, through episodic surveys conducted...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5329: Sustainability of Fisheries and Aquaculture: the Multidisciplinary Approach as a Key for Success. The session was organized by Elisa Ravagnan....
This document provides a summary of a Parallel Session presentation held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the session were 0302: Rethinking the Commons Problem: The Knowledge Externality and Technological Change. The session was organized by Dale Squires. The report includes...
Two thirds of seafood consumed in EU is imported. The EU capture fisheries sector has been stable during the last few years but EU aquaculture has declined. The EU capture fish industry has its main challenges related to the supply of fish because of overfished stocks and extreme seasonality of...
I first of all sketch a picture of the importance of fisheries to people and argue that our interactions with fish stocks, for the most part, are currently unsustainable. Next, I identify the provision of capacity-enhancing subsidies by governments or what has been described as ‘harmful' or ‘bad' subsidies in the...
Unilateral conservation of a transboundary resources, notably bycatch species, can lead to production, trade, and conservation leakages, losses in net benefits to society, and, paradoxically, increased rather than the intended decline biodiversity loss. A 2001 time-area closure of a key fishing area for the California-Oregon drift gillnet fleet harvesting swordfish...
A general discard ban is currently being introduced within the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union. The gradual implementation of this landing obligation (LO) started in the beginning of 2015 and is to apply to all fisheries within the EU by the beginning of year 2019. A major challenge...
The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union is currently adopting a major change to its methodology, by eliminating discards. One of the questions that arise related with the implementation of the landing obligation (LO) refers to its impact on supplies of unavoidable, unwanted catches (UUC) and how they can...
Bigeye tunas are bycatch to skipjack tunas when tuna purse seine vessels set their nets on floating aggregator devices (FADs). Current approaches to managing bigeye in both the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO) and the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) entail permanently closed areas, such as the “correlito” in the...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5313: Analyzing behavioral responses to regulation – what can be learned for management? The session was organized by Florian Diekert and...
Joint production of multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services that enter in multiple markets complicates the standard interpretations of baselines, additionality, and the process of stacking. Intuitively, joint production means that the process of providing the multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services is interrelated, and nonjointness means that each offset or ecosystem...
The paper presents a vessel level simulation model of the impact of a landing obligation on a typical Scottish demersal trawler under a discard ban in addition to existing quota management controls. The simulation model is based on a simple microeconomic model of firm behaviour and predicts landings, discards and...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5313: Analyzing behavioral responses to regulation – what can be learned for management? The session was organized by Florian K. Diekert,...
Notwithstanding the increasing use of area and seasonal closures to promote the sustainable use of coral reef fisheries, few studies have examined the socio-economic performance of these management strategies. This study describes small-scale fishermen's views regarding the biological and socioeconomic performance of these management tools off Puerto Rico. Our findings,...
The world’s fisheries are widely considered to be in ecological crisis. One governance solution is private standards, including ecolabelling. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for ‘sustainable’ seafood, with good players rewarded with price premiums or market share and bad players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however,...
This paper will discuss the processes and outputs of implementing a three year project on ecosystem-based fisheries management (EAFM) in Lombok, Indonesia. The discussion will cover the theoretical framework, implementation strategies (diagnosis, establishing management plan, and implementing the management options) and the outputs. In particular, it will highlight the community...
We suggest freshness as a critical factor in determining fishing trip duration. Using daily logbook data from a Japanese-based longline fishery, we find that prices are highly elastic with respect to the freshness of the product, with a 1% decrease in our freshness measure corresponding with a 3.85% decrease in...
Recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico has followed a familiar pattern to that observed in many commercial fisheries: fishing under regulated open access has promoted a “race to the fish” with cascades of shorter seasons, shrinking bag limits, and significant discards. These restrictions may have significant effects on angler...
Many recreational fisheries are managed under regulated open access governed by seasonal closures and bag limits. This approach has often promoted a “race to the fish” with cascades of shorter seasons and shrinking bag limits. These restrictions may have significant effects on angler welfare by inefficiently allocating fish across anglers,...
This paper traces the rise and fall of, in its day, one of the most important fisheries in the world. The fishery exhibits the impact of changes in demand and supply brought about by technological advance in three noticeable shocks. Fishing is said to have commenced in 495AD. So prolific...
The seafood industry in Norway relies on selling most of its production output in a global market. The Norwegian Krone is a vulnerable currency subject to frequent fluctuations, in recent years especially in connection with developments in the crude oil price. The Norwegian seafood industry's competitiveness is sensitive to changes...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The title of the special session was: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome: Fishermen’s Responses to the Landing Obligation. The report includes details of the proceedings of the session, including presenters and presentations...
Rwanda is one of the sub-Sahara African countries that have made greater strides in promoting gender equality and empowerment of women across all agricultural sectors aquaculture. Until recently the country has been more or less self-sufficient as regards food supplies. Now, however the estimated rate of population increase is greater...
The study focused on the production of Clarias gariepinus fingerlings produced from Clarias gariepinus broodstock fed inclusion levels of Azanza garckeana. Clarias gariepinus broodstock fed different inclusion levels (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) of Azanza garckeana pulp meal, representing diet 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in a randomised...
Recently, Thai government has placed gender issues on agenda of its policies and has allocated budget for implementation of projects on gender. For fisheries sector, there are many fisheries development projects implemented under the National Fisheries Development Strategy. However, gender issues have not been considered in the project cycle due...
Fisheries and agriculture form the backbone of the Solomon Islands economy. The population is around half a million people, of whom 94 percent live within five kilometers of the coast. Women are key to effective fisheries management and development in Solomon Islands. They make up half of the community for...
This study explored how micro-credit benefits women processing cultured catfish into smoked form by obtaining and analyzing their perceptions. The specific objectives included identifying micro-credit sources used, sources preferred and ranking factors considered when deciding on a micro-credit choice. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting 120 processors analyzed. Analytical...
Lack of adequate gender-specific data and statistics has given rise to stereotype assumption on the contributions of men and women in agricultural production; aquaculture inclusive. This consequently has negatively influenced policies and programs geared towards increased productivity. The study was therefore aimed to analyze the gender participation in aquaculture value...
Fisheries are recognised to provide important contributions to the economy, through the creation of jobs, growth and GVA from both the catching sector and associated supply chain activities. They also provide social benefits, through individual well-being, contributions to strong communities, and knock-on benefits through supply chains. However, in national terms...
Over 11 % of total population engaged in fisheries and aquaculture and out of them about 10% is women in Bangladesh (DOF, 2013). Thus, women make essential contributions to local food security and in many cases; they take part in the commercially fishing production and trading too. There are pervasive...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The title of the special session was: Gender Research as a New Frontier in Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics: In the Footsteps of Rosemary Firth. The session was organized by Meryl Williams.
Women's contributions to fisheries are often overlooked in fisheries management, economic analyses, and consequently, in policy decisions. Fortunately, women's contributions are gaining recognition despite a lack of quantitative data describing the scope and scale of their participation in the sector. While there are numerous studies describing the role of women...
This research examines the gendered livelihood implications of fisheries management decisions through an exploration of a seasonal ban on fishing. The 45 day closed fishing season on the Eastern coast of India began in 2001 and applies to mechanized boats. While there is existing research on the impact of the...
This paper fills an important gap towards ensuring gender responsive fish value chains by analyzing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study was based on the hypothesis that gendered differences are prevalent in the fish value chains and their...
Petatán is a fishing village bordering Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Most fish caught in the lake and in other water bodies in the region are processed here. Petatán houses the second largest fish processing industry in the region. The fish filleted here goes to the second largest...
Women in general play a critical role in every aspect of the production process and value chain in small-scale fisheries. Their best known roles are however in processing and marketing of fish and fishery products. The fish sector (capture fisheries and aquaculture) is an important source of income and livelihoods...
The role of women in fisheries is often undermined. Several studies have tried to show how important is women in fisheries, particularly in marketing. In support for this kind of studies, this paper will try to measure the role of women in fisheries sector. Using a one full year fish...
Over the past several years we have been developing Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) to measure the degree of success fisheries systems have in achieving environmental, economic and community outcomes. We have also developed indicators of key input factors. Among the input factors we have explicitly developed indicators for women’s participation and leadership...
Modern fisheries and aquaculture value chains are diverse, often complex and dynamic, with men and women undertaking different and changing roles depending on culture, concerning resource access and control, mobility, type of technology involved, the extent of commercialisation, and the product involved (De Silva, 2011). Female roles in Sri Lankan...
In this study, socio-economic structure of fishermen in Samsun Shelf Area was investigated between January 2014 and May 2015. Questionnaires were applied to 42 fishermen by visiting the region three times. At the end of the study, the age distribution of the fishermen were mentioned between 29 and 69 years;...
İstanbul Bosphorus is a strategic fishing area with its physico-chemical and geographical characteristics. Also because of İstanbul metropole is taking part there, İstanbul aquatic Products fish market has become an important position in the region. The high variety of species and product entrance quantity rates provided us a continuous data...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
The paper adopts the double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis developed by Simar and Wilson in 2007 to estimate and explain technical efficiency of white-leg shrimp farming in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam. This procedure not only enables consistent inference within models explaining efficiency scores but also produces confidence intervals for these efficiency scores....
In Tanzania, the overall objective of the National Fisheries Policy is to develop a robust, competitive and efficient fisheries sector that contributes to food security, nutrition, growth of the national economy and improvement of the wellbeing of fisheries stakeholders. The overall goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological,...
The European Common Fisheries Policy landing obligation has introduced significant uncertainty over quota uptake in the coming years. This year (2016) is the first year of the landing obligation for fleets targeting demersal stocks even though it will not be fully introduced across demersal quota stocks until 2019. A recent...
The Leptobotia curta, known as the Ayumodoki in Japanese, is a Japanese endemic freshwater fish that has been designated as a national treasure since 1977. This fish is, however, categorized as a "critically endangered species" by the Ministry of the Environment's Red Data Book in Japan. While a direct reason...
Final program details of Visible Possibilities: The Economics of Sustainable Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Trade, the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, held July 16-20, 2012 in the Hyatt Regency Kilimanjaro Hotel, Dar es Salaam Tanzania
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...