Diversification of fishery revenue can reduce interannual variation in revenue and thereby lower financial risk (e.g., Kasperski and Holland, 2013; Cline, Schindler, and Hilborn, 2017; Sethi, Reimer and Knapp 2014; Anderson, Ward and Shelton 2017), Average fishery diversification levels on the US West Coast have been declining over time –...
Management changes in the coral reef fin fish fishery of the Great Barrier
Reef provide a natural experiment of the efficacy of combining no-take
areas and dedicated catch shares. A spatially-explicit bio-economic model
of the fishery is used to analyze the tradeoffs between biomass and the net
returns from fishing...