This report assesses how current management actions are adhering to the original mandate set by the Wilderness Act of 1964 by monitoring the five qualities of Wilderness character (untrammeled, natural, undeveloped, opportunities for solitude/unconfined recreation, and other features of value) as they pertain to this specific Wilderness area.
Research on small-scale fisheries has largely focused on men’s fishing practices and perceptions and considerably discounted the important contributions by women to household food security and economies (Harper et al. 2013). Studies in most West African countries confirm that post- harvest activities is gendered in nature and revolves around traditional...
While there has been a global proliferation of marine certification schemes aiming to incentivize sustainable fishing in the last decade, the uptake has been comparatively slow in Japan. Suggested reasons include difficulties assessing Japanese fisheries co-management institutions, and reduced profitability from complex seafood distribution networks and mismatched consumer preferences. However,...
Southwest Atlantic (SWA), corresponding to FAO Area 41, covers a total surface area of 17.65 million square kilometres. It spans from 5°N latitude off the coast of Brazil, to 60°S latitude off the coast of Argentina. Most of the area is classified as High-Seas, defined by the Convention of the...
We apply the Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) methodology to the Southeast Pacific Anchoveta Fishery off southern Peru and northern Chile. Our basic model of analysis is a production function framework, where the performance outcomes are a result of the available inputs. We measured all FPI categories (outcomes and input metrics)...
This paper studies the price volatility transmission between the different markets along the value chain of fresh anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in Spain. For this purpose, the prices at the ex-vessel market, the wholesale market and the retail market are considered. As a methodology, a Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) and an...
Decision-making in aquaculture is becoming increasingly complex due to the need of taking into account large volumes of data, and to consider other aspects besides the economic ones, such as product quality or the environmental sustainability, which are sometimes opposing and difficult to integrate. However, the development of simulation and...
Although aquaculture is the food-production industry that has grown the most in recent years, its companies inherently face more variability in their results than companies from other industries This can be explained by the increasing complexity in their decision-making processes, due to the large number of, external and internal, influencing...
Fishing systems provide employment, income generation, poverty alleviation, and food security. The coexistence of small-scale fisheries (SSFs) and large-scale fisheries (LSFs) increases management complexity. Management actions have ecological and social implications that must be addressed carefully. We applied a bioeconomic game-theoretical model to the four-gear mullet fishery in southern Brazil—one...
Fishing systems provide employment, income generation, poverty alleviation, and food security. Management actions have ecological, economic and social implications that must be addressed carefully. The coexistence of small-scale fisheries (SSFs) and large-scale fisheries (LSFs) increases management complexity. Game-theoretical bioeconomic models empower management decisions in such complex systems.
The main objective of this study is to assess seafood marketing and pathway in Nigerian coastline (the case of Lagos and Ondo States in the South West, Nigeria).
The specific objectives were to determine the: demographic characteristics of seafood marketers in the study area; gender pathway involved in seafood marketing...
The estimation of production frontiers using revenue as the dependent variable is very common in fisheries research since in multi-species fisheries boats catch several species and their output must be aggregated somehow. The objective of this paper is to decompose revenue efficiency into two components, one due to quantities and...
Nigeria with an annual potential of 2.5 million tonnes of fish from aquaculture produced only 316,727 tonnes in 2015 out of the domestic production of 1.027 million tonnes and total fish demand of 3.25 million tonnes. The government has put in place a lot of initiatives to increase aquaculture production...
Nigeria with an annual potential of 2.5 million tonnes of fish from aquaculture produced only 316,727 tonnes in 2015 out of the domestic production of 1.027 million tonnes and total fish demand of 3.25 million tonnes. The government has put in place a lot of initiatives to increase aquaculture production...
Iran is among the pioneers in the farming of rainbow trout that is mostly up to 1 kg with a production of 173,000 tonnes in 2018, principally used for domestic consumption. Farmers use labour-intensive hand feeding and counting eggs by hand. Imported trout eggs are preferred to domestic eggs as...
This contribution aims to provide an economic assessment of the seabream and seabass industry in the Mediterranean, in order to describe the recent development and current situation of the economy and markets of this industry. It focuses on analyzing the economic and financial structure at different levels of aggregation (industry,...
Key Takeaway: Understanding this process and factors that influence compliance decisions can help support the development of effective regulations. Importance of consistent observer coverage. Compliance varied by violation choice. Importance of port-level campaigns.
Introduction: The issue of the economic relations between major fishing countries (EU and Asian countries) if of major concern: Overt and tacit vessel subsidies, the asymmetry in the benefits for lower income and higher income countries from fishing and fish processing, LDC EEZs account for around 11 per cent of...
The valuation marine ecosystem services have been receiving increasing attention in scientific literature, however most of the research is focused in marketed services and does not consider the part of the total economic value. Some services like cultural services that are not direct (touristically) or indirectly marketed as part of...