The aim of the paper is to explore the economic environment that makes informal fish trading possible, the nature of these activities and how they are interconnected or might stimulate IUU fishing activities in the port of Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico. The main argument is that fish trading by middlemen has...
The linefish sector is one of the 10 commercial fisheries in Namibia. This sector is made up of two subsectors: commercial right holders and angling. The angling subsector is further divided into two types of fishing activities; subsistence angling which serve as a source of food supply and recreational angling...
Smallholder fish farming contribute to improved nutrition, incomes and livelihoods of rural
communities. Despite the potential, aquaculture in most rural areas is based on extensive
production systems characterized by low availability in inputs. In Nyaguta, farmers are involved
in agricultural production activities, including fish farming. However, most farmers do not...
Capture fisheries and aquaculture in freshwater bodies play a very important role and is considered to have great potential for augmenting fish production as well as diversification of livelihoods in both Cambodia and Vietnam. In Cambodia, inland fisheries remain primary importance in the fisheries sector, while aquaculture is more important...
With the economic globalization, the consumption demand of Chinese residents has changed gradually. The paper analyzes consumption tendency of Chinese residents from two aspects, those are per capital consumption level and consumption characteristics. On the one side, per capita ownership of fish and fishery products of China is above the...
Ecolabelling has become an essential component of the global sustainable seafood trade. The MSC is currently the world leader in certification and ecolabelling programs for wild capture fisheries. While the environmental benefits of certification have been widely recognised, its economic benefits are often anecdotal or unknown. The South African hake...
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,...
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.
This paper presents key lessons from development of a transboundary fisheries co-management (TFC) on Lake Chiuta, shared between Malawi and Mozambique. Since the mid-1990s when fisheries co-management was introduced on the Malawian side of the lake, there had been conflicts between fishing communities from both countries. The conflicts mainly centred...
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 present status and deviations from the classical management practices of composite farming of Indian major carps (IMC) have been investigated in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Classical six species combination, ratio of IMC and exotic carps were not being followed by any of the farmers as...
Small pelagic fish species are important fisheries resources for food and have valuable contribution in employment creation. The overall objective of this study was to assess the socioeconomic value of small pelagic fishery in Mafia Island. The fishery is artisanal and dominated by men. The dependant on the small pelagic...
Despite the growing popularity of culture-based fisheries (CBFs) associated with village irrigation systems (VISs) in Sri Lanka, there is little knowledge about factors that influence productivity levels. To redress this, primary data from 325 fish farming groups in two districts (Kurunegala and Anuradhapura) are used to estimate a stochastic translog...
Nigeria’s domestic supply of fishery products falls short of the demand; however, there is a growing aquaculture industry that has come to the rescue in filling the gap between supply and demand. Most of the aquaculture fish farmers are prone to the risk of climate change, since weather and extreme...
Climate change has aggravated the marginalized condition of indigenous fishers in the Philippines. It is worth noting, however that the relationship of many indigenous peoples to their natural environment such as the land, the sea, plants and animals incorporates them as part of the same environment. The cultural and religious...
In developing countries, small scale or artisanal fisheries catch data-collection systems, are not performing satisfactorily. This is due to the systems not giving out what is needed for assessing the appropriate fisheries, policy and management decisions, tracking the trends of exploitation of fishery resources and the overall performance of existing...
A vessel-based bio-economic model (IAM) is presented and applied to the Bay of Biscay sole fishery to investigate alternative quota management systems from a multi-criteria perspective. For this study, the model integrates several institutional arrangements related to catch share management. The current French co-management system with non-transferability of quota is...
Drying is affordable preservation method used where poorly developed logistics limit marketing of fresh fish. In Eastern Africa dried Rastrineobola argentea (Dagaa) is an important source of low cost stable dietary protein. The fishery is characterized by high post-harvest losses and products are often of low quality, restricting the sales...
Ocean health is a major concern for coastal communities dependent on the ocean for their livelihood. Recent changes in in ocean health force researchers to examine the factors that influence the decline in ocean health. The paper developed production functions using the Global Ocean Health Index (OHI) for 2014 and...
Climate change has multi-dimensional impacts on environmental, fisheries, social, economic and development drivers and it necessitates governments in developing appropriate mitigation and adaptation plans. Climate change hot spots –are ‘live labs’ where climate change impacts and its manifestations are observed “first”. The South west India has been recognised as one...
Women empowerment, an active multidimensional process enabled the women in accessing greater autonomy in decision making , ability to plan their lives. In Kerala women play an important role in the fisheries sector due to their involvement in fishery related activities. Even though women engage in wide range of activities...
Most of fish farmed by small scale producers in developing countries is sold directly to local markets without passing through a processing industry. Besides problems related to sanitary requirements, this situation highlights the low added value retained by fish farmers. In Brazil, the integration between small scale fish farmers and...
The species-based approach currently implemented in Europe where catch limits (TAC) are set for each stock independently, is not adapted to the management of mixed fisheries that harvest various species. The economic efficiency of those fisheries is often constrained by the existence of « choke species » for which catch...
This paper presents a deterministic bioeconomic model with a marine protected area (MPA) including both fisheries management and tourism development goals. A weighting parameter is added to the model to allow tradeoffs between management preferences regarding the two sectors affected by the MPA. The theoretical model is illustrated with analysis...
There are a range of smaller-scale fish farms operating in Ghana producing mainly tilapia and catfish based on extensive (stocking of small reserviours), intensive and semi-intensive (earthen ponds & tanks) techniques. Aquaculture production in Ghana plays a significant role in the economic development of livelihoods of fish farmers and contributes...
Any fisheries governance system is made up of policies and institutions in the broad sense of the term that govern the sector. When a system of governance is unsatisfactory, in particular because of the inadequacies and dysfunctions of these policies and institutions, and the way in which public action is...
In this article I analyse a community-based small scale fisheries management (now becoming a co-management arrangement) for Mbenji Island located in the central part of Lake Malawi through the lenses of the concept of power. The analysis is at the local level where majority of the important actors operate. The...
This study identifies differences in fishing efficiency of vessels operating in the Nha Trang purse seine fishery in Vietnam. The deterministic DEA methodology is used to assess relative capacity utilization of the fishing fleet. Double bootstrap DEA method is adopted to overcome some of the drawbacks of nonparametric DEA methodology...
Complex social–ecological systems such as small-scale fisheries require the inclusion of human dimensions in fisheries management and planning for simultaneously preserving human health and habitat health. However, linkages between ecological, social, political and economic subsystems have been largely ignored in conventional fisheries management, in Nigeria in particular. Hence, the weak...
Complex social–ecological systems such as small-scale fisheries require the inclusion of human dimensions in fisheries management and planning for simultaneously preserving human health and habitat health. However, linkages between ecological, social, political and economic subsystems have been largely ignored in conventional fisheries management, in Nigeria in particular. Hence, the weak...
The large lakes (Victoria, Albert, Kyoga, George, and Edward), covering 75% of Uganda’s surface area under contribute up to 90% of the capture based fisheries production. Until the late 2000s, the commercial fisheries in these lakes was largely based on species that grow to large sizes (> 20 cm) including;...
Using theoretical trade model of generali equilibrium, the paper consider non-cooperative decision of interior solutions of fishery amounts and resource price under integrated market price as constraints. The paper proved non-existence of interior solitions equilibrium under the conditions with very generalized robustness in not only stationary equilibrium but also transition...
The fisheries sector of Sri Lanka means of livelihood for 2.6 million people and the vast majority of them are involved in small scale fisheries. The study was taken up with the objectives of to identify social &political membership status of small scale fishery value chain members, to assess the...
The study contains a cost benefit analysis of the aquaculture development component of the Fish Farming Enterprise Productivity Program (FFEPP) undertaken for Meru County in Kenya. It focuses on the implementation of the FFEPP undertaken from 2009 up to 2013 and evaluates its benefits and costs against the opportunity cost...
Large areas along Java’s north coast are threatened by subsidence and abrasion. Subsidence is even faster than sea level rise. Although forbidden by law, farmers have cleared the mangrove forest almost up to the coastline, thus reducing sedimentation and increasing exposure to coastal abrasion. Four interventions are needed: reduce groundwater'...
Based on stochastic frontier analysis, this paper estimates the technical efficiency of aquaculture in 29 provinces and cities in China from 2007 to 2015. Based on this, the output elasticity of each input factor and the influencing factors of technical efficiency are analyzed. The results show that the whole of...
Recreational marine fishery is crucial for marine economy and the transformation of traditional fishery. In recent years, it runs into development bottleneck and traditional forms need to change. The paper defines the concept of new forms of recreational marine fishery. Based on the “Smiling Curve” theory, the development path of...
Scarcity of wild-caught seafood has incentivized innovation and growth in aquaculture, especially for species that compete directly with wild alternatives. In the global tuna industry, the most pronounced scarcity is associated with bluefin tuna species (Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern, which serve similar markets). Supply-side factors including overfishing and governance challenges...
Almost all recent empirical literatures that study the subjective wellbeing of fishers lack of relevant control as they are only based on surveys among fishers. Therefore, they cannot really answer whether being a fisher generate higher or lower life satisfaction, after controlling for other aspects of life. This study is...
A central component of any discrete choice analysis is the selection of alternatives that determine a decision agent's choice set. Failure to properly specify choice sets will generate biased parameter estimates, inaccurate behavioral predictions, and erroneous estimates of policy relevant metrics (e.g., welfare effects of closed areas in fisheries). The...
The aim of this research is to identify the effort of the Icelandic fishing fleet since 1950 with focus on the cod fishing fleet in Icelandic fishing grounds. Various historical records and citizen research in Iceland provide unique information and do allow for the total reconstruction of the decked vessel...
The Pacific whiting fishery is one of the most economically important fisheries on the West Coast of the United States, with around $50 million in annual landings. In general, the fishery is highly profitable. “The Blob”, or the large mass of warm water in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean, was first...
This study accessed household fish demand and supply in the coastal Areas of Ondo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used. The study areas were purposively selected because it falls along the coastal areas of the country. Three villages/towns where fishing activities are dominant were randomly selected while 60 respondents...
The welfare gains from incorporating ecosystem considerations into fisheries management are unclear and can vary widely between systems. Additionally, welfare gains depend on how ecosystem considerations are adopted. This paper uses an empirically parameterized bioeconomic model to explore the welfare implications of two definitions of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). We...
South Pacific albacore is a species of primary importance in the longline fishery of a number of Small Island Developing States in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Despite the fact that the stock is assessed as not being subject to overfishing, nor overfished, economic returns have declined significantly over...