Women in fishing communities must work very hard on fishing and marketing activities together with housekeeping and child-care. However, their social and economic status is vulnerable. Women are often excluded from any process of decision-making as regards fisheries management and community development. They are not usually allowed to join the...
Frozen storage is an integral part of effective food distribution. In general, both food quality retention and storage costs will increase as storage temperatures decrease. In this paper, we develop a model for optimal temperature design for semi-perishable seafood inventory, and apply the model to Pacific Whiting surimi. General results...
The Enhanced Data Collection Project (EDCP), administered by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, collected data on discard rates for groundfish species and bycatch rates of prohibited species. From late 1995 to early 1999 EDCP observers collected discard data from 235 fishing trips by 25 trawl vessels that voluntarily...
The paper presents a spreadsheet based benefit-cost framework for assessing the net benefits of domestic
tuna processing to the resource-owning nation. The framework has a number of advantages including
transparency, flexibility, and a check on internal consistency. The case study examines the effects of a
range of tax, access fee...
In 2002, the offshore and coastal fisheries only account for 19.9% and 7.3%, respectively, of the total landing value. Since 1978, the offshore harvests follows a downward trend, but the number of fishing vessels, the total vessel tonnage, and the total horsepower of vessels follow an steady increasing trend until...
Human beings are now recognizing that fish are no longer free gifts from the nature and we have to manage it wisely. The current management schemes are more or less based on the allocation of fish by individuals or communities through rules and regulations, resulting in illegal fishing, high MCS...
In the last three decades coastal fishery has created employment, provided a supply of good quality animal protein for Thai people. The fishery resources of Thailand are treated as common property, anyone can take benefit from these resources. They are, therefore, heavily exploited by fishers who employ various types of...
The purpose of this study is aimed at developing a simple bioeconomic model of the Namibian rock lobster fishery, with the main objective being to incorporate economics into fisheries management in order to estimate the potential economic benefits that could accrue to the fishery given efficient management. The complex nature...
Environmental concerns about seafood consumption generally are associated with the status of target stocks as well as bycatch and/or habitat issues. The more recent concept of "food miles" hails from terrestrial food production, and focuses on "consuming locally" in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of a consumer's diet....
The sinking of the oil tanker the Prestige in November 2002 off the coast of Galicia in Spain had an
important social, environmental and economic impact. The aim of this paper is to carry out an initial
analysis of the costs relating to a halt in the activity of an...