At first, a paper which explores "wellbeing" in fisheries might seem misplaced. Our attention is more often focused on the poverty with which fisheries are so inherently associated and the threat of growing poverty as fishers, worldwide, face depleted fish stocks and a rapidly changing coastal environment. As this panel,...
The Byrd Amendment permits US firms that petition successfully for antidumping duties to collect tariff revenues. Whether these payments strengthen the duty’s ability to raise price depends crucially on market structure. In a competitive market where domestic and imported goods are imperfect substitutes, the payments are akin to a production...
Many millions of people throughout Vietnam depend in full or part on the country's aquatic resources for food, livelihood and employment. The fisheries and aquaculture sectors are significant contributors to the
economy of Vietnam. With increasing population pressure and the development of more effective (and/or destructive) fishing gears and practices,...
While there have been substantial benefits to fish trade and the fishing industry from the opening up of
markets, deregulation and greater flexibility in how and where companies can operate, this may have come at a significant cost when it comes to managing fish stocks sustainably. Globalization has facilitated the...
The shrimp fishery accounts for more than one-half of the total revenues generated by commercial fishing activities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Due to its historical open access nature the harvesting sector has historically been overcapitalized (from an economic perspective) resulting in a suboptimal generation of rents. Various management...
This paper explores how the implementation of appropriate policy measures and underlying institutions can support sustainability and resilience in fishery systems. The policies discussed fall into three categories. First are those relating directly to fishery management, including the development of a management portfolio, application of the precautionary approach, and implementation...
A principle U.S. fisheries management concern is ensuring compliance with Endangered Species Act requirements to limit incidental takes of listed species to levels which do not result in potential jeopardy to existing population stocks. Part of the risk assessment process involves an analysis of historic takes (bycatch) of ESA-listed species...
Planning is an important kind of policies making. Meanwhile it is considered as activities which specify general development strategies of a nation, sector or even a specific field; it also is the basis for developing and implementing development projects (Huong, 2005). Therefore, it is essential to recognize the challenges, opportunities...
Society has agreed on the goal of sustainable fisheries but achieving the goal is often submerged by more
immediate national and international demands causing fisheries to slip down the political agenda or diverting attention to other fisheries issues, e.g., profitability under high fuel prices. Among the problems
challenging marine capture...
The overall objective of SPICOSA is to develop a self-evolving, holistic research approach for integrated assessment of Coastal Systems so that the best available scientific knowledge can be mobilized to support deliberative and decision-making processes aimed at improving the sustainability of Coastal Systems by implementing Integrated Coastal Zone Management policies....
This presentation provides an introduction to the FAO-World Bank Rent Drain Study. The objective of the study is to present the story of the world's depleted and overexploited marine fisheries in economic terms.
The study develops an economic justification at the global level for restoring the health of fish stocks....
Conflict between the recreational and commercial sectors in New Zealand is largely limited to the fishery within the Territorial Sea. Although most of New Zealand’s fisheries’ value comes from mid to deep water stocks outside the Territorial Sea, there are a number of commercially valuable inshore fisheries.
Traditionally, conflict between...
Developing country fisheries serve many functions, from feeding the poor, sustaining local communities and providing employment to generating export earnings. Yet, despite their importance, most countries have largely failed to ensure sustainable fishery systems and livelihoods for the millions of people dependent on them. Classically, management has concentrated on the...
Recent reports of fishery collapse paint a gloomy picture of the ocean's future; perhaps 100% of fisheries from the world's large marine ecosystems (LMEs) will be collapsed in just 40 years. While poor fisheries governance is now widely regarded as the cause, bioeconomic theory and anecdotal evidence suggest that rights-based...
The European Union ranks third worldwide in terms of fishing power, with 5.7 million tonnes landed in 2006 and a fishing fleet active in every ocean. It is also the leading importer of fish (worth some ¬20 billion in 2006). That is why the European Commission considers that the European...
This paper explores some theoretical and practical issues in developing policy for the management of shared fisheries for maximum value. Maximisation of value from the use of resources is a key component of sustainability, and transferable rights in commercial fisheries management have contributed significantly toward this goal. Maximising value becomes...
The Constitutional imperative in South Africa after 1994 was to build a just and equitable order that would benefit its entire people's after centuries of social and legal privilege benefited ruling minorities. In
1998 new era fisheries legislation aimed to redistribute fishing access rights and reform the sector. The challenge...
Under open access regime, the coastal fisheries resources are overexploited in Vietnam. Recently, the community based fisheries co-management is becoming priority policy of Viet Nam, however, the government is confusing about how to approach it. The piloting approach by learning from previous and existing pilot community based fisheries management models...
Most fishing fleets include a wide range of vessel types, sizes and gears. The different types of fishing operations may vary significantly in their ability to meet policy goals and hence, in order to plan for optimal resource use, knowledge of the overall performance of the different segments in a...
Increasingly fishery managers are expected to take an ecosystem approach to fisheries management that accounts for the interrelationships of target species as well as non-target species and habitat. Fishery managers would benefit from coupled ecological-economic models that includes both the human and ecological aspects of the fishery and incorporates them...
While much attention has been focused on the level and impact of IUU fishing on sub Saharan Africa, much less work has been undertaken and less is known on how and to what extent IUU fishing affects the Asia-Pacific region. As part of a larger project commissioned by the Asia...
The paper gives a brief summary of Indonesia's Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) targets and progress as of midterm of this 18 year (1998 - 2015), three Phase program. The total program cost is USD 250 million. The paper highlights COREMAP's approach to the conservation and management of...
Developing an allocation scheme for distributing rights amongst fishing nations remains one of the major obstacles to the development of stable cooperative arrangements to exploit international fish resources.
A great deal of effort has been devoted over the years to finding a durable solution to the allocation problem, both at...
Developing country producers represent more than 80 % of total world fish supply and 50% of exports. A large part of this comes from small-scale producers in capture fisheries and aquaculture. In the discussion of the future role of the small-scale sector the debate has often focused on how the...
This paper seeks to address how political risk influences behaviour, in particular rent seeking behaviour. Such risk is important in many industries, which posts challenges both for policy makers and economic agents. This paper studies how political uncertainty affects rent seeking, and what level of political uncertainty is optimal for...
There has been an increase in efforts towards alleviating food insecurity in developing and transition economies. Changes in agricultural practices and the growth of aquaculture have led to changes in food
consumption, employment opportunities and household income. Aquaculture and fishery products have become a significant source of high quality protein,...
This paper models and investigates the foreshortening of transferred quota which is applied in the Norwegian fisheries management. This reduction in the transferred quota amount by 20% is then redistributed amongst all vessels in the relevant vessel group. It is shown that fishing units can be expected to be operated...
Economic indicators are needed for future knowledge-based fisheries management in Vietnam. This entails a good data collecting and processing system. This paper contributes to this requirement for the tuna-mackerel gillnet fishery, near-shore and offshore, in Nha Trang, South-Central Vietnam. For 2005 and 2006 fifty vessels were surveyed for technical characteristics,...
The expansion of fishing capacity is one of the most pressing problems facing many fisheries around the world. Excess capacity arises when a high number of vessels enter the fishery, and these vessels are
employed to exploit the available fish stocks beyond a target level of yield. The lack or...
Norway has been characterized as a “hesitant reformer” regarding fisheries management. Instead of introducing a fully fledged ITQ-system after the crisis in the coastal fisheries in 1990, a new Individual Vessel Quota (IVQ) system was introduced. Later a structural policy was introduced, whereby fishing rights (and adjoining quotas) may be...
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) of 2006 (Public Law
109-479) amends the Moratorium Protection Act (Public Law 104_43) requiring the United States (US) to take
actions to address illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing and bycatch of protected living marine resources on the high seas and...
Louisiana accounts for more than 90% of U.S. production of crawfish. While the majority of the product is sold live for crawfish boils, approximately 15%-30% of the domestic output has historically been processed for the tail meat. As a result of increasing competion from China, Lousiana processors filed an antidumping...
It is recognized that small-scale fishing communities are grappled with an array of problems, including overfishing of fishing resources, lack of alternative sources of employment, rapid population growth,
displacement in coastal areas due to industrial development and tourism, pollution and environmental degradation etc.. Discussions on the issue of overfishing in...
Fisheries in Vietnam has rapidly been developed from 1980x of last century. From total 600,000 T, the production has been increased up to 4,200,000 T in 2007 and particularly growth has been done in export
and processing, from USD 11.2 in millions in 1980, export value has been increased to...
Small-scale fishing communities in South Africa were recognised for the first time in 1998, when the Marine Living Resources Act, aimed at redressing apartheid era inequalities, was enacted. Government's primary intervention has been to issue annual individual permits, wherein Government defined the technical parameters for the fishers to operate as...
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on salmon fishery governance in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest U.S. Here the physical and ecological effects of climate change are expected to be significant and to include alterations in freshwater and marine aquatic habitat that will affect the...
About 8000 fishers are operating today in the Lake Nasser’s fishery (Egypt) and the annual official landing varies between 12,000 and 15,000 tons. Despite this relatively modest importance, the Egyptian authority decided to embark in a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s. The objective of the...
The swordfish fishery is one of Hawaii's most lucrative, and also most highly regulated, fisheries. According to the United Fishing Agency (UFA) fish auction data in 2005, average swordfish (shallow-set)
revenue per trip was $76,897.03 and average tuna (deep-set) revenue per trip was $36,382.14. Swordfish trips, however, comprised of only...
This session proposes to review and critically discuss the potential for conceptual approaches addressing human and economic development in the context of the fisheries sector. Recent research, informed by a wide range of frameworks in development studies, is greatly increasing our understanding of the lives and livelihoods of fishing people...
When weak and strong fish stocks are caught in the same fishery, managing for the protection of the weak
stock may result in foregone economic benefits from harvest of the strong stock, while managing for the
strong stock may result in overfishing of the weak stock. A particular complication arises...
The paper develops a model of world frozen shrimp market using data from 1980 to 2004. There is a structural change in the world shrimp market that shifts the market volume from traditional to the non-traditional markets. Market structural change affects shrimp price significantly. Shrimp price has a trend and...
A key element in evaluating fishery management strategies is to examine their effects on the economic performance of fishery participants, yet nearly all empirical studies of fisheries focus on fishing as opposed to processing. However, the economic benefits derived from fish stocks are largely determined by the revenue generated from...
Today, decentralization and democratic participation are presented as necessary conditions to achieve poverty alleviation and ensure the sustainable use of our diminishing natural resources. In small-scale
fisheries, similar ideas predominate and decentralization has become the new management paradigm through the concepts of community-based and co-management. In this paper, we present...
Globalization is the key contextual development underlying most international fisheries and oceans debates. As is the realization of the linked nature of international governance, such as between fisheries (as one major oceans use), and oceans governance issues. The global fisheries and oceans agenda is accelerating, broadening and intensifying. This includes...
This paper contributes to the literature on economic efficiency, technical change, bioeconomic modeling, and renewable resource economics in general by introducing output-oriented Debreu-Farrell technical inefficiency and technical progress into normative static and dynamic bioeconomic models of a fishery and examines the economic and policy ramifications for the open-access Nash and...
The cod stock in the North Sea is threatened by overexploitation. To recover this fishing stock, pressure needs to be reduced. This implies that catch compositions with small amounts of cod are preferred by public policy makers. The present analysis assesses the technological efficiency of fishing trips, considering landings of...
Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) abalone fishing in South Africa has grown to such an extent that the legal total allowable catch has been progressively reduced from 640 tons in 1995, to a proposed zero for 2008. We present research on the socio-economics of the IUU abalone fishery and the...
Norway is probably among the most obvious beneficiaries of globalisation, mainly because of the rich natural resources, skilled labour, advanced technology products and strong institutions. The fishing industry has been on the forefront in adjusting to new challenges and seeking the potential gains of economic integration, liberalisation and deregulation. The...