Gear technologists have, in recent years, developed rigid sorting grids, Sort-X, in bottom trawls, to improve the size selectivity of this type of gear. Experiments with the Sort-X system in the aft sections of trawls were carried out aboard Norwegian and Russian trawlers along the coast of Northern Norway and...
The development of several sub-fields of general economics, including those of bounded rationality, institutional economics and the evolutionary economics, has expanded the scope and intensity of the dialogue both within economics, as well as between economists and other scientists. One of the more important preoccupations of early evolutionary economics was...
The artisanal fishery in Senegal is characterized by composite biological, technological economical dynamics in interaction. A computer model of the exploitation is presented to study the relationships existing between resources, production, trading, consumption (dynamic approach). The model is developed using a systemic approach. The computer transcription utilizes multi-agent formalism (artificial...
Applied research is often motivated by the economic benefits it will give rise to. These benefits are due to either improved production techniques or new products. The realisation of these objectives depends much on the assessment of different research alternatives and allocation of resources between them. Also within aquaculture research...
The natural market selection of the Italian aquaculture farms, mainly happened in the years' 90, need to determine and check their strength and weakness points: this will be capable either to modulate the managerial strategies in function of market trend and set up entry barriers. The study has been carried...
Tins paper addresses the importance of different product farms and their origin when considering the market structure in the European salmon market. The competition between Farmed Atlantic salmon and wild-caught pacific salmon has received some attention previously. However, this was before frozen Atlantic salmon emerged as an important product form...
Market failure in open access fisheries usually results in economic losses, because the most efficient means of harvesting fish resources are not used, and because fish resources are not allocated to the use with the highest social marginal value. In efficient, competitive markets, pricing mechanisms would ensure the optimal allocation...
The basic hypothesis underlying this paper is that the amount of fishing that a fisher undertakes over a year is not determined solely by circumstances which are exogenous to the fisher, such as weather conditions and resource availability, but are the subject of individual choice. As such, the decision can...
Under the new Law of the Sea, the definition of exclusive zones was considered an important first step towards improved management of the world's fisheries. However, one of the limits to the effectiveness of extended Jurisdictions was the problem of transboundary fish stocks. This question recently appeared at the centre...
The following paper presents the results of a detailed investigation into the distribution, characteristics and performance of fisheries management systems in the major fisheries of north-east Nigeria (Upper River Benue, Lake Chad and the Nguru-Gashua Wetlands). A key focus of the research was to examine the possibilities for using a...
As the various mechanisms of fisheries resources management have matured, fishermen increasingly have responded by devising and developing different forms of collective representation. Within the European Union (EU), Producer's organisation (POs) provide a voluntary organisational structure which has evolved since its inception in the 1970s. During the intervening period, POs...
While accurate information about developments in the fisheries of the former USSR is somewhat difficult to obtain, certain trends have been remarked on by Russian, Baltic State[1], and international observers, and some data is available to support them. The objective of this research is to collect, assess, crosscheck, analyze, and...
Most trade literature is concerned with gains from free trade under the assumption that traded goods are produced under complete property rights. Seldom have researchers examined the consequences of free trade in the presence of incomplete property rights over renewable natural resources. In this paper, we explore these consequences. In...
The prices of Finnish salmon and aquacultured rainbow trout have dropped to a new all-time low in 1995. The price, in real terms, the fishers were paid for domestic salmon in the beginning of the 90's was only one fourth of what it had been in 1980. This price decline...
The World Food Summit which will be held at FAO in Rome in November of this year is expected to adopt a Plan of Action to Achieve Universal Food Security. World fisheries and international trade in fishery products will form part of the considerations of Heads of State and Government...
Britain has traditionally tried to protect its livestock, fish and shellfish production industries from many serious diseases by restricting imports of live animals- fish and shellfish to those from countries free of specified important diseases affecting particular classes of stock. Although the primary aim of the European Union has been...
Generic Quality Assurance Schemes referred to as Schemes, have been established in the primary industries in many countries. They represent an important part of the generic marketing for different categories of foodstuffs, especially primary produce. Such Schemes are established due to, among other things, severe competition in the international food...
Asia has made and is making great contribution to the world aquaculture industry and fisheries civilization. The article analyzes development of the aquaculture in Asia with the production potentiality and comparative advantage index. It gets the conclusion that the aquaculture in Asia industry has promising prospect. And at last the...
In the 2002 CFP Reform, a potentially significant change that took place involved tentative steps toward increasing stakeholder participation if fisheries governance. Participation by the fishing industry (and conservation groups) in the management of fisheries is, in general, a positive thing. However, participation has many different ‘practical definitions,’ i.e. it...
The Indonesian Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) is a 3 Phase, 18 year (1998 - 2016), USD 250 million national program aimed at protecting, rehabilitating and better managing Indonesia's coral reefs and their associated ecosystems and improving the livelihoods and incomes in target coastal communities where currently 60%...
The Jakarta fishing port that is the greatest fishery position in Indonesia was located in important area on the natural ecosystem where the Mangrove wood grows thick from the first. In maintenance of the fishing port, the harmony with these environments was the important subject. For this reason, in improvement...
There are approximately 3000 fishing ports in Japan and there have been strong criticisms against the dispersed construction of fishing ports. The dispersed construction of the fishing ports is inevitable and historical consequence of the style of the production and life of fishing operators. In recent years, with the fishing...
This study addresses the factors that are causing a shortage of successors in fishery and possible countermeasures. The interrelating structure of these factors was clarified using the DEMATEL (DEcision MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method and the effectiveness of the countermeasures was evaluated. Problem-causing factors were also hierarchized using ISM...
The population of adult perch in the Baltic Sea consists of a number of spawning populations. Spawning migration is different in different tagging places. Perch were marked with Carlin tags during the spawning period and released after tagging in the area where they had been caught. In Helsinki sea same...
The long-range objective of an aquaculture extension system is to help the rural fish farmers to reduce their desperate state of poverty through augmenting fish production. The study was conducted to understand the present situation of fisheries extension and to make a policy recommendations for the development of fisheries extension...
The objectives of the study are to clarify the participation of coastal communities on coastal resources and environmental management in Chang Islands. The individual interview technique with structural questionnaire was used as the tool for data collection. The samples include fishers, aquaculturists, employees, traders, tour operators and government officials. Two...
The market for fish products in Finland has changed markedly since the removal of trade barriers after the country's accession to the EU in 1995. Further the transition from a producer to a consumer-oriented society has created numerous new demands for food products. New dietary trends, such as low fat...
The extent to which demand and supply shocks are transmitted in the value chain is an important topic. As many value chains cross international borders exchange rate pass through is an important element in this context. In this paper a multivariate system that allow us to test different hypothesis with...
The ultimate goals of marine aquaculture are to create a sustainable fishing industry, increase the farmer's income and to protect endangered species. This paper provides information on the current marine aquaculture in Indonesia including finfish, crustaceans, mollusks and seaweeds. Improved legal framework, financing, human resources and technologies are required for...
The Training Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center has completed a wide range of experimental fishing trials on the use of Juvenile and Trash Excluder Devices (JTEDs) over recent years. These trials have investigated the effectiveness of the rigid sorting grid, rectangular window and semi-curved window JTEDs in...
This paper presents the results of the impact of the attitude and knowledge of the Bajau tribe in Nain Island of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on the development of their fishery activities. The results are also compared with the same parameters on another community of the same Island, the Sangihe tribe....
There is a high level of fishery resources exploitation in dense coastal waters region such as North Coast of Java. This is because of the increasing numbers of traditional fishing gears was concentrated on the territory. For the past ten years, the rate of resource utilization in Tegal waters and...
El-Nino Southern Oscillation has many impacts on marine environment. During El-Nino 1997-1998, there has been a change in sea surface temperature in Bali water. Bali water is an important contributor for pelagic fisheries, such as Sardinella lemuru, Thunnus sp, Katsuwonus pelamis, and Euthynnus sp. Sardinella lemuru is emphasized, because the...
An integrated coastal management plan has become an increasingly important tool to accommodate coastal resource utilization that is multisectoral in nature. The idea of adopting this strategy comes from the fact that coastal resources consist of various valuable assets that should be utilized in a sustainable fashion. This paper emphasizes...
Considering the operational needs on fisheries management, this research was aimed for understanding the adjustment processes of small-scaled fishing gear dynamic by measuring and analysing the seasonal fishing gear dynamic including seasonal fishing pattern and fishing gear interaction. To understand the fishermen's adaptation of their fishing effort from any changes...
The community based for the fisheries resources management project (CO-FISH-Project) in Bengkalis is a coastal development project to improve the living standard of coastal community in this region. Over all project activities including resources and ecology assessments, social economy assessment, establishment of suitable fisheries resources management, community based fisheries resources...
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...
Since proposing “Sustainable development” defined by World Commission on Environment and Development, many organizations (governments, industries and NGOs) have sought and tried sustainable way of shrimp aquaculture. As the mangrove was destroyed on a large scale, they have tackled to mangrove reforestation around the same time. Destruction of the coast...
This paper presents a introduction of the developed system by that fisherman share various information. This system is characterized by the application of data mining methods and the introduction of IC tags. We compute the predict price formula by data mining of product value. The predict price of each port...
China is a large developing country with 1.28 billion of population, per capita’s income is continually increasing; the population is also increasing, so that the demand for human eatable consumption of fishery products is increasing significantly. During 1995 to 2001, the average annually increasing rate of per capita’s GDP was...
As the fishery product demand is rising now, the fishery activities are also increasing. However, some of them are done in irresponsible way, like using the fishing gears that able to destroy the environment. This paper is aimed to review sasi laut, as an indigenous knowledge conducted in some villages...
Spatial bio-economic models are becoming increasingly important in the attempt to offer ever more dependable advice to fisheries managers. The main reason for this is the escalating interest in marine protected areas and more precisely fishing exclusion zones. As such the key issue of fishing effort dynamics needs to be...
This paper examines the roles of non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in improving the status of open water fisheries resources in Bangladesh. NGOs are traditionally involved mostly in micro-credit operations as they are highly experienced and skilled in this area, but they have not been working for improving the natural resources management...
The fisheries sector is an important contributor to the Indonesian economy in terms of protein supply, employment and income generation. Average per capita of fish consumption was 18,00 kg in 1990 and 22,84 kg in 2002. In the last 13 years, the dietary life of Indonesian people mainly consist of...
The paper documents the discrepancy between prices of permanent quotas traded directly between fishing firms and implicit price of quotas as reflected in the price of fishing firms that are publicly traded. An overview of earlier attempts to explain the discrepancy is given. It is suggested that priceformation in market...
The strategic direction of fisheries management in New Zealand is changing from merely ensuring sustainability to enabling New Zealanders to maximize the value they obtain from the sustainable use of fisheries resources and protection of the aquatic environment. Allocating rights and responsibilities is crucial to achieving this goal of maximizing...
In the Philippines as elsewhere in Asia, working children in the fisheries sector is pervasive yet tends to be invisible. Their exclusion in the fisheries development equation is perpetrated by public ignorance and apathy. Aimed at increasing public awareness and understanding of this phenomenon, this study on the girl- and...
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities are a threat for both the marine environment and society. By undermining effective management systems, IUU fishing activities not only generate harmful effects on economic and social welfare, but also reduce the incentives to comply with rules. The issue of IUU fishing has...
Approximately 90 per cent of total catches in northern Sulawesi are pelagic fishes. About two-third of them are large pelagic fish, such as tunas (Katsuwonus, Thunnus, Euthynnus). However the National Assessment Stock Commission reported that availability of the large pelagic fishes in Sulawesi and Maluku Sea is just about one-third...
The small to medium-scale tuna longline industry targets the fresh chilled sashimi markets. This fishery is seen as the major avenue for the development of the domestic tuna industry in the Pacific Islands. The capital and technology requirements for the longline industry are relatively less compared to the purse seine...
Resource management under Individual Transferable Quota System (ITQ’s) is similar to that of Total Allowable Catch system. It, however, is said that the former is more difficult than the latter. In this paper, by analysing the case of the New Zealand’s ITQ’s during Fiscal Year 1991 and 2001, the current...
The project titled “Aquaculture Development in Northern Uplands” (VIE/98/009/01/NEX) stressed on strengthening an extension network and improvement of seed production and delivery system among the target groups at the remote area. Moreover, it gave a high priority to gender education and women's involvement in all activities. The project was implemented...
Participatory Fisheries Management (PFM) was introduced in fisheries management in Malawi in 1993 with Lake Malombe as a pilot site. After almost 10 years of implementation, the program has registered some positive achievements however some problems have surfaced that need to be addressed. Although the Fisheries Act was revised in...
Swimming blue crab fishery is a mainstay of small-scale fishers in Sikao District. Two fishing gears are mainly employed, i.e., crab gill net (CGN) and crab trap (CT). The socio-economic conditions of the fishers are varied to fishing ground, type of fishing gear and marketing. The average total cost of...
Japan imported 35.44 million tons of fishery products in 2000, about 5 times more than in 1975, when imports overtook exports. This increase over the past 25 years is due to the following factors. On the demand side: 1) Increased imports of fodder driven by growth in domestic fish culture;...
The Spanish market is the most important market for hake and hake has been for many years the demersal fish most captured in Spain. To the traditional product differentiation due to size, gear and presentation form (fresh, frozen and frozen fillets), a new differentiation can be performed regarding the hake...
Nigerian aquaculture industry is fairly well developed and ranks second in Africa. It has low production levels compared with the country's aquaculture production potentials. Aquaculture production in 2001 was 47,000 tonnes contributing 9.92% of total fisheries production. If aquaculture production is to play its expected role in economic development of...
The rapid increase in global aquaculture production since the early nineties has increased the demand for fishmeal as an ingredient in aquafeed. This increase has been hypothesized as the source of disruption in the fishmeal market by researchers such as Delgado et al. In this paper we evaluate whether or...
The article discusses the issue and complexities that arise when two sectors, fisheries and marine tourism, grown and imply for an institution governing coral reef ecosystem either government based or community based. Even though, a community-based management system is commonly recognized as a better way in governing the resources, the...
The South China Sea separates East Malaysia from Peninsular Malaysia that is consisted of two big states; Sarawak and Sabah. The marine resources of peninsular Malaysia have been adequately explored in last few decades whereas East Malaysian marine fisheries resources are still potential to be explored. The fisheries sector of...
Consultative structures are often suggested as a means of facilitating resolution of issues in multiple use management through developing consensus and facilitating cooperation. The advantages and limitations of this approach are explored through the history of the Cockburn Sound Management Council. Set up in 1999, the Cockburn Sound Management Council...
Using a partial adjustment modeling (PAM) approach, this paper examines the behaviour of Japanese import demand for Indian seafood products during the period January 1995-March 2000. It was found that lag demand, income, seasonality and time trend significantly influencing the import demand behaviour of Japan for the Indian seafood products....
In Bangladesh aquaculture has developed mainly as a rural activity integrated into existing farming systems. Rural aquaculture has made significant contributions to the alleviation of poverty. Rural pond fish farming products can be treated as a commodity, which can be traded for cash or essential household items, both of which...
New Zealand’s $25M (USD) domestic tuna fishery comprises a troll fishery for albacore, a longline fishery for southern bluefin, Pacific bluefin, bigeye, yellowfin, and albacore tunas, and a small purse seine fishery for skipjack tuna. New Zealand vessels also fish for tuna in high seas areas and, through arrangements with...
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...
It has been recently reported that the major canned fish found in international trade –tuna- was first canned in 1903 in southern California. This US-centric view regrettably omits the important foreign trade of canned fish products borne as far back as the late 1820s in Europe, birth place of this...
High-level hygiene management for foods is highly required in Japan nowadays. In general, there are 5 stages in the flow of marine products; fishing, unloading, market, processing and distribution. Therefore it is important to take care the hygiene management at each stage of them. In this report, the most advanced...
Traditionally, European fisherwomen were often involved in fisheries sector by selling fish. Today, their contribution is more diversified with very limited legal recognition: management of fishing enterprise, maintenance of gears. Fisherwomen continue to sell fish because it is often a good way to get a better price. Confronted with economic...
In Namibia, the linefish sector is in principle exploited by two sectors: recreational anglers and commercial rightholders. Recreation angling, in the broad Namibian context, is made up of two categories of fishing activities; that which is exerted for the purpose of pleasure or as a sporting activity (recreational anglers), and...
The Fishermen Guilds in Spain (Cofradias) have around one thousand year tradition. They play a central role in the control of the fishing rights in special in the context of coastal fisheries. The paper examines the mechanisms to establish property rights, the quality of these rights and the cost and...
Within the French fish farming sector, both in the freshwater sector (trout, carps) and in the marine sector (seabass, seabream, turbot), during the last years have emerged a number of quality schemes. These quality schemes show various forms (national charters with third part certification, standard, official quality labels, private certification,...
In the institutional framework of fishery management in Japan, which can be seen as a Co-Management system, fishermen's agreements are prerequisites for implementation of resource management measures. However, because of uncertainties in the effect of management measures, fishermen's agreements are difficult to obtain. This study applied a decision-making method under...
Fisheries management is a problematic issue for many states. It is complex and among its constituents governmental policy plays a decisive role. Fisheries management is a big political issue for Russia. Russian fishing industry is in a disastrous state. The Russian government speaks a lot about food security and develops...
This paper is intended to examine and discuss in what way output control, one of the fisheries management measures, is effective in reducing over-capacity, and can become an effective means towards sustainable management of living marine resources. It was made clear theoretically and empirically that output control is applicable as...
Game and experimental theorists have specified the conditions under which different auction systems may lead to distinct price levels. By changing the sales organisation, the introduction of electronic auction systems on first-hand fish markets is expected to have modified bidders' habits, hence affecting the price levels. A demand model based...
Whale meat has been one of traditional diets in Japan. However whaling is now prohibited except for the purpose of scientific research. Therefore it is important to keep an eye on poaching and to make distribution routes clear to obtain an international credibility. Then it is highly required to build...
Marine reserves have increasingly been recognised for their potential to address the pervasive problem of unsustainable harvest of fisheries worldwide. Abalone catch around Stewart Island has been in decline since the turn of the century despite being managed under NZ's quota system. A nested logit model is applied to spatially...
BEMMFISH is conceptualised as a bio-economic model for non-industrial/artisanal fisheries, allowing for multi-species dynamics and multi-fleet dynamics, where the control variable is effort (not the catch). The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the simulation part of the BEMMFISH model and to focus on the most...
Access restrictions to traditionally-used resources, that are associated with the establishment of marine protected areas (MPA), often generate conflicts. Public participation in decision-making process has been widely recognised as a critical factor in legitimising conservation policy and enhancing its success. This paper discusses fishers involvement issues in the context of...
The British Columbia Seafood industry has witnessed fundamental and unprecedented changes to its business environment since the early 1990's. These changes include worldwide phenomena such as changes in consumer tastes and world economies, globalization, the growth of aquaculture, the growing and influential environmental movement, and the need for greater traceability...
Half of Bangladesh (50% of land surface) is wetland and wetland supplies most of the freshwater fisheries in Bangladesh. Tanguar Haor (haor means wetland with vast waterbodies) is a declared Ramsar site which posses one of the largest fishery stock in the country. However, there is no clear-cut guidance in...
Real options models arguably provide a useful framework for understanding individual fishermen's investment decisions, which play an important role in fisheries management issues ranging from capacity reduction to stock assessment. While these models appear to predict actual behavior reasonably well, one important difficulty in applying them is that the salvage...
In this paper the focus is on the process of internationalization and globalization in the seafood farming industry. The development in the five largest and international farming firms is studied in relation to both traditional stage-theories of internationalization, and more recent theories, like the RBV, contributing to IB. Integration processes,...
This paper provides a brief description of the two key institutional designs of Japanese coastal fisheries and their role in cooperative fishery management. It is well known that Japanese fishery management regime utilizes fishery cooperatives, called Fishery Cooperative Associations (FCAs), which they are granted territorial user rights (called common fishing...
This paper analyzes the behavior of fishing households under individual transferable quotas (ITQ) system based on Singh, Squire and Strauss household model. ITQ system is sought to be the optimal fishery management regime in terms of economic efficiency. However, preceding theoretical analyses only considered implementing ITQ to a well established...
Theory suggests that fishing effort would be allocated among various fishing grounds such that profit levels would be equal. Homogeneity among fishers as well as perfect information is assumed and profits are opportunistically increased by changing fishing locations. These assumptions have been shown empirically ins some single fisheries where fishers...
The Japanese system of local management has been heralded as a successful system for managing coastal resources. Despite such general success, however, fishing cooperatives and their respective members currently face internal and external pressures from over-fishing, pollution, and life in an industrialized society. Further, the Japanese government has pushed for...
Thailand is the biggest shrimp producer in the world. Thai shrimp from aquaculture reached 280,000 tons in 2001, which accounted for about 33% of the total global shrimp aquaculture production. Detection of residues of banned chemicals in shrimp imported to Europe from Asia starting from 2002 was perceived as a...
A general way to collect quantitative data on consumer's opinions is to conduct a survey. One basic qualification in a survey research is that the contents of the questions should have the same meaning to all the respondents. However, respondents different interpretations of the same meaning to all the respondents....
As the stock of marine resources are showing declining trends, the marine fisheries development policy in Thailand has focused on the conservation and sustainable utilization of resources. Many projects for coastal resource management have been planned and implemented during the recent decades. The purpose of this study is to define...
In recently years, the finance sector had focused their attention on commerce operation in China.When fisheries farmers decide to increase invent to promote production, they also can't get enough loans because aquaculture is a highest risk sector in agriculture and the commercial banks would prefer others sector in agriculture to...
An empirical model of aquatic product price fluctuations in China has been built using a time series of urban residential and rural panel data, and estimated through cointegration and an error correction model. In the long-run cointegration equation based on urban consumption behaviour, movements in income, average consumption and farmer...
The Falkland Islands has successfully met many challenges in the management and development of its fisheries resources over the last 20 years. To meet a new generation of challenges the current licensing system based on the allocation of non-transferable, variable duration licences to individual vessels is to be replaced by...
The French Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) fishery is composed by almost 250 beam trawlers, mainly registered in nine different harbours disseminated from South Brittany to Oléron Island. Even if the main target is Norway Lobster, these fishermen also catch juvenile Hake, Sole and other commercial fishes. Both Norway Lobster and...
New forms of coordinations adapted to competition changes and new market conditions have recently emerged within the fisheries commercial channel. They redistribute the value added between the various actors and also bear significant consequences on fishing practices and resource exploitation. Two main reasons have led to the restructurings: - the...
The coastal management project mainly emphasizes on the taking part of the community regarding the coastal management. But due to the decreasing income of fishery households resulted from resource depletion and limitation of finding the additional income of the fishermen, advocating co-management is not enough to aid fishermen and community...
Over exploitation of the coastal fisheries resources in Southeast Asia region is the cause of many problems either conflict among the fishermen or depletion of the coastal environment. In order to find out the way to solve those problems, Set-Net fishing was proposed to be used as a kind of...
This paper provides analysis on the current trends for decentralization of fisheries management in Indonesia. In Indonesia, decentralization has been processed by the establishment of Undang-Undang (UU) 22/1999 (local autonomy law), which is a product of the Reform movement to correct the centralism practiced in the New Order or Soeharto...
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Training Department (SEAFDEC/TD) and the Department of Fisheries (DOF), Thailand adopted the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Fisheries Consultative Group (FCG) scheme to implement a coastal resource management program. SEAFDEC/TD and DOF incorporate to formulate the collaborative project entitled ‘Locally Based Coastal Fisheries Management in Pathew District (LBCFM-PD), Chumphon Province,...
In early spring, spear squids (Loligo bleekeri) lay their egg capsules on top of hollows in reefs and cavities in structures of Hokkaido ports on the Sea of Japan. Therefore, the role of port structures is important for propagation of spear squid. Research on the spawning conditions of spear squids...