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Growing the seafood sector: Technical change and innovation

Creator:

Sharp, Basil and Jeffs, Andrew

Abstract:

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

Creator:

Batstone, Chris and Sharp, Basil

Abstract:

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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Research Paper