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Exploration of Non-Monetary Benefits of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certification, Lessons from the Developing World

Creator:: Zepeda Domínguez, Jose Alberto, Torre-Cosio, Jorge, and José Espinosa-Romero, María
Abstract:: Eco-labels have been developed to face the difficulties faced by States in managing fisheries. They promote the voluntary adoption of sustainable practices, through market differentiation of sustainably produced items. In fisheries, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is the most commonly used eco-label. The label is presumed to increase the social and...
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Data Collection and Measurement in the Northeast US

Creator:: Rountree, Barbara
Abstract:: The Resource Evaluation and Assessment Division’s Social Sciences Branch (SSB) in the NOAA Northeast region is preparing for an external review in 2017 to evaluate its programs alignment between the strategic objectives of SSB, NEFSC, NMFS, and NOAA. In previous SSB and NEFSC wide reviews, much attention has been drawn...
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Economic Assessment of the Biological Dynamics of Florida’s Commercial Snapper-Grouper Fishery

Creator:: Stevens, Molly, Ault, Jerald, Smith, Steve, and Agar, Juan
Abstract:: The goal of this research was to characterize the trade-offs between profitability and sustainability when managing a valuable commercial fishery. The Florida finfish fishery generates over $75 million in annual dockside value; the snapper-grouper complex constitutes over half of that total. Currently, federal stock assessment procedures focus on stock size...
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Alternative Livelihoods for a Diversified, Blue-Green Economy

Creator:: Mesnick, Sarah
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Fishery Participation and Location Choice: The West Coast Salmon Fishery

Creator:: Vasquez Caballero, Smit, Sylvia, Gilbert, and Holland, Dan
Abstract:: A behavioral study on fishery participation and fishing location choice for the West Coast Salmon fishermen was undertaken to determine the effect of salmon fishery closures on the distribution of fishermen across alternative fisheries and fishing locations. A dataset describing fishing trips from West Coast salmon vessels from 2005 to...
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Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning Efforts in the United States and Beyond: An Introduction to this Special Session

Creator:: Kosaka, Rosemary
Abstract:: This talk will introduce this special session on coastal and marine spatial planning (MSP). An overview of how MSP is interpreted and implemented in the United States at different geographic scales will be discussed. An emphasis on data and research needs will be given as well as context for the...
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A New Theory of Change for the Sustainable Seafood Movement

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Roheim, Kathy, Bush, Simon, Sanchirico, James, Asche, Frank, and Zou, Chao
Abstract:: This paper is the result of a project that began with NAAFE 2015 special session on Fisheries Certification, which asked what forces are driving the market for sustainable seafood. Many previous studies looked at consumers' demand, but in this paper we looked at the entire supply chain (from producers to...
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Cooperative Management of Trans-Boundary Fish Stocks: Implications for Tropical Tuna Management in the Pacific Island Region

Creator:: Tokunaga, Kanae
Abstract:: The trans-boundary migration of fish stocks creates spatial externalities, and hence, makes international cooperation beneficial. This study provides a model for the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks and examines the relationship between fish migrations and the benefits from cooperation. Previous studies on trans-boundary fish stock management have...
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The Economic Viability of Small- vs. Large-Scale Fisheries: An Example from Mexico

Creator:: Schuhbauer, Anna, Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés, and Sumaila, U. Rashid
Abstract:: Achieving economic viability is an important goal when it comes to developing policies for sustainable fisheries management, especially for small-scale fisheries (SSF). SSF are vital for many coastal communities, however, often economically and politically marginalized. Here, we develop and estimate what we denote as ‘basic economic viability’ of SSF, using...
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The Value of Eco-Labels through Revealed Consumer Preferences for Seafood in San Diego County

Creator:: Poindexter, Oriana
Abstract:: Seafood markets are the inflection point in the fish-to-food transformation, and act as windows into revealed consumer preferences for seafood selection. These preferences have far-reaching implications for fisheries management, food security, and marine conservation. This study reveals consumer preferences for seafood in San Diego County by quantifying the relationship between...
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Pace Vaquita

Creator:: Avila, Sara
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Using Choice Models to Inform Marine Spatial Planning: A Case Study of Marine Protected Area Designs off the U.S. West Coast

Creator:: Wallmo, Kristy and Kosaka, Rosemary
Abstract:: Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a process that planners can use to make decisions about different, sometimes conflicting, ocean uses. The process is intended to be participatory and to facilitate the sharing of information about multiple uses of the marine environment. In the U.S. an important component of MSP is...
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Distributional Performance of a Territorial Use Right and Co-Managed Small-Scale Fishery Targeting a Metapopulation Using Artificial Shelters

Creator:: Villanueva-Poot, Raul, Seijo, Juan Carlos, Headley, Maren, and Cuevas Jiménez, Alfonso
Abstract:: This work reports on how resource rent is distributed among owners of exclusive fishing grounds in the spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) fishery of Punta Allen, Mexico. This MSC certified small-scale fishery is co-managed through Territorial User Rights. Members of the local fishing cooperative, have exclusive access to individual fishing grounds....
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Securing Women's Rights and Livelihoods

Creator:: Williams, Jordan, Smith, Sarah, and Rife, Alexis
Abstract:: The UN Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Small-scale Fisheries, along with the Voluntary Guidelines for Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests, recognize the role of secure tenure in ensuring the livelihoods, well-being, and basic human rights of small-scale fishing (SSF) communities. Rights-based management (RBM), which works to secure...
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The Round Table of Mexican Fisheries: Fisheries Governance Examples from Northwestern Mexico

Creator:: Zepeda Domínguez, Jose Alberto, Zetina-Rejón, Manuel, Espinoza-Tenorio, Alejandro, Ponce-Díaz, Germán, Arreguín-Sánchez, Francisco, and Lluch-Belda, Daniel
Abstract:: Fisheries management currently claims for fisheries governance (FG), a more balanced scheme that proposes to share the power among government, civil society and economics. In Mexico and other developing countries, the lack of operational regulations has delayed its implementation. Several authors state that topological analysis is useful to identify key...
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Potential Impacts of Proposed Changes to the Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper IFQ Program

Creator:: Ropicki, Andrew and Larkin, Sherry
Abstract:: The Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper IFQ Program (Program) was the first catch share management program implemented in the Gulf of Mexico. IFQ management was implemented to reduce overcapacity and eliminate the problems associated with derby style fishing. The Program was successful, the number of vessels harvesting red snapper decreased...
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Market-Based Incentives for Vaquita Conservation

Creator:: Squires, Dale
Abstract:: The vaquita, a critically endangered marine mammal, is a bycatch to shrimp strawl and gillnet fisheries in the upper Gulf of California. Reducing vaquita bycatch, however, is complex. The fisheries are smaller-scale and major contributors of income and employment to coastal communities. Although tourism is increasingly important, fishing remains an...
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Fisheries Subsidies: Why Should You Care About Them?

Creator:: Sumaila, U. Rashid
Abstract:: The objective of this paper is to provide an analysis of the current state of fisheries subsidies worldwide, and how they are likely to affect the sustainability of fisheries. More specifically, I will review previous investigations of global subsidies issues, and give a brief overview of the impact of subsidies...
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Ecosystem Service Valuation: A U.S. Policy Context

Creator:: Wallmo, Kristy
Abstract:: In the last several years a number of U.S. policies and directives have laid the foundation for Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV) to be incorporated into ecosystem-based management (EBM), the current management paradigm for U.S. oceans and coasts. In 2010 the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force instructed...
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Who Opposes ITQs?

Creator:: Sutherland, Sara
Abstract:: When evaluating potential government interventions economists often consider whether a proposed policy is efficient. However, changes in policy can also result in changes in wealth. When politically influential individuals or groups see losses, efficient policies can become politically infeasible even if they increase wealth in aggregate. This paper examines political...
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Vaquita Conservation Efforts

Creator:: Sanjurjo, Enrique
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Reforming Fisheries Subsidies

Creator:: Sanjurjo, Enrique and Hernandez Trejo, Victor
Abstract:: Fisheries subsidies have been roughly estimated to be as high as $35 billion worldwide, of which about $20 billion have been categorized as capacity-enhancing subsidies that directly contribute to overfishing. Since 2001, the necessity for reforming fishing subsidies has been part of the discussions in the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
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Vaquita Friendly Strategy

Creator:: Rodriguez, Ramses
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Reference Points for Vulnerable Fish Species Based on Bioeconomic Age-Structured Models: An Approach for Totoaba macdonaldi

Creator:: Rodríguez-García, Oswaldo Uriel, De Anda-Montañez, Juan Antonio, Valenzuela-Quiñonez, Fausto, Hernández-Flores, Alvaro, Salas-Márquez, Silvia, and María Da-Rocha, José
Abstract:: Management objectives of vulnerable fish species must focus on maintaining healthy population status. Hence, reference points should be constrained to ensure recruitment. We assessed bioeconomic reference points for the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), an endemic fish to the Gulf of California, reaching lengths of 2 m and 25 years. Totoaba fishing...
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Commercial Fishing Behavior under Changing Ocean Conditions: Spatial Analysis of the US West Coast Salmon Fishery

Creator:: Speir, Cameron and Thomas-Smyth, Alice
Abstract:: In this paper we characterize changes in the level and spatial distribution of fishing effort during the extreme ocean temperature event known by oceanographers, climate scientists, and the public as “the Blob.” The Blob was an unprecedented marine heatwave that occurred off of the Pacific Coast of North America from...
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The New Fisheries Catch Shares Program in Argentina: Balancing Efficiency and Equity Objectives in Rights-Based Management Systems

Creator:: Stefanksi, Stephanie
Abstract:: While rights-based management is generally purported enhance economic efficiency in fisheries and reduce over-capitalization, the social and economic outcomes due to this regulatory regime are less comprehensively understood. Relatively recently, industrialized and export-oriented Latin American fisheries began adopting individual transferable quota (ITQ) regimes to recover collapsed fish stocks. While these...
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Explaining Heterogeneity in Responses to Seafood Information Campaigns

Creator:: Weir, Michael and Uchida, Hirotsugu
Abstract:: Recently, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) recommended that pregnant and nursing women consume at least 8 to 12 ounces of seafood per week as part of a well-balanced diet. Thus, the seafood market has been flooded with health benefit/risk information targeted at women...
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Applying a Bioeconomic Model to Recreational Fisheries Management in the Northeast U.S.: The Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Ugly

Creator:: Steinback, Scott, Lee, Min-Yang, and Wallmo, Kristy
Abstract:: This research combines a utility-theory consistent model of demand for recreational fishing trips with an age-structured stock dynamics model to provide policy relevant advice to managers of the groundfish fishery in the Northeast United States. We provide an overview of the model and describe the challenges encountered with using this...
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A Double Hurdle Application of Fishermen’s Catch Sales Through Fish Mothers in Ghana

Creator:: Quagrainie, Kwamena and Chu, Jingjie
Abstract:: A significant proportion of catch by artisanal fishers in Ghana is sold through wealthy middle-women, known as “fish mothers,” who often pre-finance fishing trips. This study examined the determinants of catch sales through fish mothers. Data used came from artisanal fishermen at major coastal fishing communities in Ghana. The effects...
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The Economic Impacts of Emerging Diseases in Shrimp Aquaculture: Insights from a Multi-Year, Global Survey of the Industry

Creator:: Valderrama, Diego, Anderson, James, and Jory, Darryl
Abstract:: Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND), initially referred to as early mortality syndrome (EMS), is an emergent bacterial disease that has resulted in substantial economic losses for the global shrimp farming industry. Its occurrence was first reported in China in 2009, rapidly spreading to Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and eventually Mexico in...
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Least-Cost Bycatch Reduction Through the Biodiversity Mitigation Hierarchy

Creator:: Squires, Dale and Garcia, Serge
Abstract:: The Biodiversity Impact Mitigation (BIM) hierarchy provides an overarching conservation framework for bycatch reduction, and more broadly for biodiversity conservation. This framework includes four steps, which are implemented sequentially to: (i) avoid and (ii) minimize impacts; (iii) rehabilitate/restore impacted biodiversity; and (iv), compensate such impacts, usually elsewhere. The first three steps...
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Determinants of Efficiency in a Mixed Fishing Fleet: A Mexican Case Study

Creator:: Salas-Márquez, Silvia, Quijano-Quinones, Daniel, and Monroy-García, Carmen
Abstract:: Influence of the Skipper Effect in fishing efficiency of a mixed fishing fleet, looking at a Mexican case study. Understanding the factors that define technical efficiency in a fleet is a requirement to define strategies to regulate the fishing pressure. In industrial and semi-industrial fleets more weight has been given...
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Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal: Role of Economic Incentives

Creator:: Mesnick, Sarah
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Impacts of the 2008-2009 US West Coast Salmon Ocean Fishery Closure on Salmon Troll Vessels

Creator:: Richerson, Kate and Holland, Dan
Abstract:: As anthropogenic changes interact with natural climate cycles, the variability of marine ecosystems is likely to increase. This variability influences the behaviour of fishers, which can affect the profitability and sustainability of stocks and may have wider economic and ecological effects. We use data from the US West Coast salmon...
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An Analysis of Bioeconomic Tradeoffs in Vaquita Conservation Policies

Creator:: Sainz, Jade
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the special session was: Saving the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal. The session was organized by Oriana Poindexter.
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Catch Quotas for the Pacific Hake Fishery in the Gulf of California

Creator:: Ramirez-Rodriguez, Mauricio
Abstract:: Fishing for Pacific Hake Merluccius productus in the Gulf of California is carried out by shrimp trawlers. When the shrimp fishing season ends, these boats shift to catching Pacific Hake and other finfish. The Pacific Hake fishery is relatively new and has the potential to grow as an industry. Therefore,...
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We Need to Restore Ourselves First: The Story of El Manglito

Creator:: Robles, Alejandro
Abstract:: This presentation provides an overview of a session presentation held at the NAAFE Forum 2017 in March, 2017. The title of the session was: Rights-Based Management. The title of the presentation was: We Need to Restore Ourselves First: The Story of El Manglito.
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