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Creator:: Weir, Michael and Uchida, Hirotsugu
Abstract:: Recently, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended that pregnant and nursing women consume at least 8 to 12 ounces of seafood per week as part of a well-balanced diet. Thus, the seafood market has been flooded with health benefit/risk information targeted at women...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Roheim, Kathy, Bush, Simon, Sanchirico, James, Asche, Frank, and Zou, Chao
Abstract:: This paper is the result of a project that began with NAAFE 2015 special session on Fisheries Certification, which asked what forces are driving the market for sustainable seafood. Many previous studies looked at consumers' demand, but in this paper we looked at the entire supply chain (from producers to...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Tegawa, Mihoko, Uchida, Hirotsugu, and Anderson, Christopher M.
Abstract:: We empirically disentangle the efficiency mechanism of revenue sharing, in which a group of harvesters shares catch and/or revenue among members of a fishery cooperative, by incorporating the influence of social capital. In addition to each of revenue sharing and social capital influencing a fishery independently we hypothesize social capital...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Tegawa, Mihoko, Uchida, Hirotsugu, and Anderson, Chris
Abstract:: We empirically estimate the effects on management outcomes in common-pool resource management into three: the direct effect of management systems, the direct effect of social capital, and the indirect effect of management systems and social capital interacting each other to influence the outcomes. In particular, we focus on revenue sharing...
Resource Type:: Research Paper and Presentation

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu and Manning, Dale
Abstract:: Despite the efforts of natural resource economists to implement rights-based fishery management systems, many of the world’s fisheries remain over-exploited and lack an institution to change course. Given the status quo of overharvesting and depleted fish stocks, it seems natural for a harvester co-op to jointly curtail fishing mortality, which...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Roheim, Cathy, and Johnston, Roberty
Abstract:: For US aquaculture industry, primary factors influencing their competitiveness are consumers' perceptions of long-term health risks related to domestic farmed seafood consumption. The public is often particularly sensitive to food risk scares, and can often dominate other considerations in food choice and lead to large impacts on consumption and the...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Tegawa, Mihoko, Anderson, Chris, and Uchida, Hirotsugu
Abstract:: In 2010, the New England Groundfish fishery adopted a sector-based management plan, wherein self-identifying groups of harvesters are allocated their collective total share of the harvest of each species as a group right, that they may manage in any way they wish. This means a single fishery with a single...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu and Scheld, Andrew
Abstract:: Sector allocation catch share system is where a share of total fishing quota is allocated to a group of fishermen called sector. Whether or not to join a sector is voluntary, and as such there are sector members and non-members coexisting in the same fishery, where the latter will remain...
Resource Type:: Other

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