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Growing the seafood sector: Technical change and innovation

Creator:

Sharp, Basil and Jeffs, Andrew

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The scope for fishing firms operating in an output controlled fishery, with tradable rights, and facing world prices, to augment profit is limited inter alia to a search for alternative input configurations that lower harvesting costs. This paper provides evidence of technical change in the New Zealand rock lobster fishery....

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Observing Recovery: The Role of Implicit Discount Rates in ITQ Fisheries

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Batstone, Chris and Sharp, Basil

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This paper discusses the potential application of implicit discount rates (IDR) derived from Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) trading data as indicators of fishery bio-economic health. The theoretical background is discussed, and in the context of one New Zealand ITQ fishery we analyze the behavior of IDR over ten years of...

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Rate of Profit Return with ITQs: Fishing for Optimality

Creator:

Zhang, Meng, Batstone, Chris, and Sharp, Basil

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The year 1990 saw the introduction of individual transferable quota rights to the NZ rock lobster fishery. This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of profitability in five different quota management areas over the period 1990-2001. The bio-economic model of an optimal fishery provides the basis for econometric analysis....

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