There are perennial efforts in forecasting future fish supply and demand (e.g. the IFPRI Fish to 2020 model, the OECD-FAO Fish Model and the WB-IFPRI-FAO Fish to 2030 model). A panel model is developed to estimate a country's fish demand in the future. Instead of using a country's' own historical...
The contribution of aquaculture and/or fisheries to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) directly or indirectly are essential indicators for policymakers to assess the sector's economic performance and make informed policies or decisions that can affect the level of political and financial support to the sector, and hence, its development pace. Despite...
While studies have long examined the economic viability of oyster industries along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the mainland United States, Hawai`i has had no industry to speak of in decades. The Pacific oyster, <i>Crassostrea gigas</i>, is being cultivated in a traditional Hawaiian fishpond for the first time, providing...
We present a positive mathematical programming model (PMP) for Hawaii's longline fishing fleet with the aim of examining the outcome of specific fishery policies. This model expands an earlier model which developed a generalized adaptation of the PMP framework to study fisheries. The current model provides managers with a realistic...
Pattern-oriented modeling (POM) strategy has been successfully applied to
build, calibrate and validate agent-based models (ABM) in ecology. Instead
of the traditonal modeling strategy that often requires comparison of the
magnitude of model outputs to a selected set of observed responses, POM
focuses on the ability of the model to...
While studies have long examined the economic viability of oyster industries along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the mainland United States, Hawai`i has had no industry to speak of in modern times. This may soon change due to the recent establishment of a long-absent water quality monitoring program required...
Pelagic fishers operate in a dynamic environment and are faced with a high level of uncertainty on a daily basis. To cope with this complexity, fishers often rely on sharing information with others in order to improve their decision making. Yet previous research has not explicitly investigated the effect of...
Tilapia is the world's most popular aquaculture species farmed mostly in earthen ponds. Experience in China (the largest tilapia farming country) is used to develop and calibrate a bio-economic model on intensive tilapia pond culture. The model is used to simulate the impacts of climate, technical and/or financial factors on...
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...
The concept of compensatory mitigation is well established as an approach to environmental management. In the past, mitigation programs have been used to conserve wetlands affected by development, and is proposed as a cost-effective approach to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions through reforestation programs. The concept may be equally applicable to...