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IIFET 2016 Program and Abstract Booklet

Creator:: International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade
Abstract:: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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Natural Resources and Sharing: The Role of Trade

Creator:: Emami, Ali and Johnston, Richard S.
Abstract:: Despite an extensive literature on food-sharing, little attention has been given to the practice in the context of fish harvesting and consumption. We examine it as a possible, almost inadvertent, source of fishery management and we examine its role in trade. Our model is a simple general-equilibrium model of a small costal economy...
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Trade Data Analysis: A Tool for Improved Transparency and Management of South African Abalone (Haliotis middae)

Creator:: Ahlers, Brian, Burgener, Markus, Harte, Michael, and Sylvia, Gil
Abstract:: Given the complex and often opaque nature of seafood supply chains, port cities can serve as checkpoints within supply chains to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) seafood commodities. Harmonized systems (HS) codes are used at port cities by customs officials to monitor commerce. Concern about IUU activity in capture...
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Analysis of Fish Value Chain in Yola area of Adamawa State, Nigeria

Creator:: Adebayo, Elizabeth, Polycarp, Mark, and Anyanwu, Sarah
Abstract:: The study examined Fish Value Chain (FVC) in Yola area of Adamawa state, Nigeria. Primary data were collected using questionnaire and were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that female dominate the fish marketing and processing nodes with 79% and 62% respectively while male (77%) dominate the...
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The Duration of EU Seafood Imports from Developing Countries: The Impact of Trade Policies and Chinese Products

Creator:: Zhang, Dengjun, Roheim, Cathy, and Ragnar Tveterås, Ragnar
Abstract:: In 2014, developing countries were responsible for 56.5% of total value of seafood imported by the EU; however, their import value only grew 56% relative to 1999. During the same period, China, gained over 300% growth in this market. The EU’s General System of Preferences (GSP) scheme provides duty-free or...
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Does Sustainability Certification Improve Market Position of Seafood Products? Evidence from the Alaska Pollock Market

Creator:: Roheim, Cathy and Zhang, Dengjun
Abstract:: The Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea pollock fisheries in the U.S. were certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) in February 2005, yet to date little other than anecdotal evidence exists to suggest whether products from these fisheries have gained market benefits relative to uncertified pollock from, for example,...
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Consumers' Preferences for Sustainable Fish from Europe

Creator:: Zander, Katrin and Feucht, Yvonne
Abstract:: In the European market for fish European producers compete with international imports which often can be produced at lower costs. That is why imports of fish are gaining market shares and an economically sustainable production of fish in Europe is frequently questioned. When aiming at increasing European production, consumers play...
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Price Formation of Fish Species Landed in Small Quantity at Landing Markets

Creator:: Yagi, Nobuyuki and Nauru, Shunske
Abstract:: Price formation of fish in landing market was studied in Japan to examine price discounts of fish species regularly landed in small quantity. It is often told that buyers tend to offer low bidding prices for fish which have small landing amount in a day because handling and shipping costs...
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Export Price Volatility and Price Transmission Asymmetry: The Case of Salmon and Cod

Creator:: Xie, Jinghua and Asche, Frank
Abstract:: Recently, several studies have investigated price behaviors of aquaculture and wild fisheries products and related the differences in price fluctuations to production technology, and environmental shocks. Researchers have also documented the evidence of asymmetric price responses along the supply chain of seafood products; however, a feature that has received little...
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Effectiveness of a Participatory Approach for Collection of Economic Data in Aquaculture Systems at Farm Level in Brazil

Creator:: Xavier Pedroza Filho, Manoel, Elena Pizarro Munoz, Andrea, and Manolio Valladão Flores, Roberto
Abstract:: Economic assessment data in agricultural systems at farm level require a substantial methodology in order to assure result reliability. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a participatory approach which is being used by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in aquaculture. This methodology consists in gathering technical parameters,...
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Transformations in Brazilian Aquaculture: Technological Intensification and Capital Concentration

Creator:: Xavier Pedroza Filho, Manoel, Elena Pizarro Munoz, Andrea, and Manolio Valladão Flores, Roberto
Abstract:: Brazilian aquaculture is undergoing major transformations which have been changing the whole structure of this sector. Except for the shrimp farming industry - which for years already has a high technology production structure - the majority of the Brazilian aquaculture had been characterized for small producers and low level of...
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Challenges for a Small Island Economy with Fisheries Path-Dependence: The Case of the French Archipelago of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon

Creator:: Wilson, James and Le Floc'h, Pascal
Abstract:: This paper explores, using an historical example, the challenges that small island economies face when they are heavily invested in one or two productive sectors, and where they have had privileged historical access to the resources that underpin those sectors, and suddenly that access is removed or reduced. The Islands...
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Rights-Based Management in Gulf of Mexico Mixed-Use Fisheries

Creator:: Willard, Daniel and Abbott, Joshua K.
Abstract:: Commercial fisheries rationalization has promoted economic benefits and accountability to annual catch limits, but most recreational fisheries are managed under regulated open access with relatively poor catch accounting, short and unpredictable seasons, and persistent overharvests. For many mixed-used fish species, recreational fishing represents over half of total fishing mortality. Yet...
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Convergent Validity of Stated Preference Methods to Estimate Benefits of Seafood Traceability: The Case of Gulf of Mexico Oysters

Creator:: Whitehead, John, Morgan, Ash, and Huth, Bill
Abstract:: Gulf of Mexico oyster safety is a significant health issue, ranking as the fourth leading cause of foodborne death in the United States. Seafood traceability is an approach that can be used to increase oyster safety. Traceability is the ability to follow seafood through all stages of production, processing and...
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Post Season Pricing as a Mechanism for Risk Sharing: Evidences from Laboratory Experiments in Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Ex-Vessel Market

Creator:: Wang, Yun-Liung and Anderson, Christopher
Abstract:: We develop a theoretical model to address the effects of different market structures on the ex-vessel prices and consequently how this would impact the risk-sharing mechanism for harvesters and processors in fisheries. We focus our research on two market structures, price-at-landing (PL) and post-season pricing (PS). PL market structure is...
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An Integrated Model for Marine Fishery Management: Linking Ecosystem and Socio-Economic Systems

Creator:: Wang, Ying, Hu, Jianfeng, Pan, Haoran, and Li, Shiyu
Abstract:: The paper devises an integrated ecological–economics–social model to assess the implementation of ecosystem-based fisheries management in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) in the South China Sea (SCS). In particular, this paper presents the development of an integrated model, which links a regional economics social accounting matrix (SAM) model to an ecological...
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The Structure-Conduct-Performance of Nearshore Marine Fisheries in Kenya: The Case of Parrotfish and Lobster Fisheries

Creator:: Wamukota, Andrew
Abstract:: The parrotfish and lobster fisheries play important ecological functions. Besides the ecological functions, the fisheries are important market assets exploited for food and income and cater for different markets. Because of the differences in the value of the two fisheries, competitive strategies employed by fishers and traders and the implications...
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Measuring Economic Value of Whale Conservation: Comparison between Australia and Japan

Creator:: Wakamatsu, Mihoko, Kong Joo, Shin, and Managi, Shunsuke
Abstract:: The positions of Japan and Australia have been in sharp contrast over whaling; Japan seeks to expand whaling and is not concerned about protecting whales while Australia attempts to halt whaling and strengthen whale conservation. In this study, we hypothesize that this sparked difference reflects different levels of willingness to...
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Putting a Dollar Value on Whaling: Can Bargaining Break Deadlock in Whaling Conflict?

Creator:: Wakamatsu, Mihoko, Kong Joo, Shin, and Managi, Shunsuke
Abstract:: An international conflict between pro- and anti-whaling countries has been a concern. While many Western countries condemn whaling, Japan conducts ‘research whaling’ under the special permission of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) along with Norway and Iceland, who also engage in commercial whaling. Especially Japan and Australia have been divided...
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Consumer Preference of Seafood from Fukushima and Adjacent Areas

Creator:: Wakamatsu, Hiroki and Miyata, Tsutomu
Abstract:: In order for the fisheries to recover from the Fukushima Disaster, we investigated that how much the Japanese consumers are willing to pay (WTP) for seafood caught in Fukushima and the adjacent regions. Since market data of Fukushima seafood are not available, we conducted hypothetical survey (conjoint analysis) to measure...
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An Analysis of Introduction of an Unspawned Spat Oyster in Japan: Using Contingent Valuation Method and Analytic Hierarchal Process

Creator:: Wakamatsu, Hiroki, Miyata, Tsutomu, and Kamiyama, Ryutaro
Abstract:: Demand for unshelled oysters has recently risen in Japan as oyster bars gain popularity among consumers. This study undertook consumer preference research to evaluate a new brand of unspawned oysters, Amakoro, compared with conventional oysters. We surveyed the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for both oyster types as well as consumers evaluation of...
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Innovative Approaches for Blue Growth in Finnish Aquaculture

Creator:: Virtanen, Jarno, Kankainen, Markus, Vielma, Jouni, Setälä, Jari, and Saarni, Kaija
Abstract:: Aquaculture has been identified term in the European Union Blue Growth strategy as an activity with high growth potential in the long term. The supply and demand of farmed salmon have been steadily growing in the EU. However, most of the salmon is imported to EU from Norway, while the...
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Extreme Climatic Effects on a Co-Managed Small-Scale Spiny Lobster Fishery: Implications in Revenues and Quasi-Profits Distribution and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Challenge

Creator:: Villanueva-Poot, Raul, Headley, Maren, Seijo, Juan Carlos, and Hernández, Álvaro
Abstract:: This work reports on the implications of an extreme climatic event among owners of 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 fishing cooperative, have exclusive access to individual fishing grounds...
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Bio-Economic Analysis for Arctic Marine Resource Management Policy

Creator:: Vestergaard, Niels
Abstract:: Future changes in Arctic marine ecosystems will depend as much on global climate change as on our ability to regulate and manage exploitation pressure at sustainable levels. There is a lack of integrated, cross-sectoral ecosystem-based analysis of the Arctic marine management. The analysis is on both the choices for implementing...
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Paths to Enhance the Development and the Uptake of Industry-Led Technical Solutions to Improved Selectivity

Creator:: Ulrich, Clara, Feekings, Jordan P., Eliasen, Søren Qvist, Krag, Ludvig Ahm, Mortensen, Lars O., and de Vega Malta, Tiago A.
Abstract:: Around the world, there are numerous examples of collaborative science -industry partnerships, which provide a bottom up approach to trawl gear development. Many have had better success in implementing selective gears as opposed to a top down approach where selective gears are enforced into legislation. On the other hand, such...
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Inside the Japanese Bluefin Tuna Market

Creator:: Tokunaga, Kanae and Yagi, Nobuyuki
Abstract:: Each year, over 20,000 metric tons of tuna are supplied to the Japanese market, of which 40% are caught by domestic vessels. Although the Japanese tuna market is large, little is known about the supply chain and the Japanese tuna fisheries’ behaviors. In this study, we investigate how Bluefin tuna...
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Fishing for Revenue: How Leasing Quota Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Creator:: Tisdell, John
Abstract:: This paper studies whether and under what circumstances, individual fishing decisions in aggregate match the maximum economic yield (MEY) or maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of a fishery. Under experimental economic conditions we provided participants a fleet of boats with a constant marginal cost and a non-linear revenue function. We explore...
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The Vulnerability Approach as Economic Analytical Framework to Assess Aquaculture Sustainability

Creator:: Timor, Julien, Rey-Valette, Hélène, Girard, Sophie, and Pérez, José
Abstract:: The vulnerability approach is an analytical framework used to assess the impacts caused by changes in socio-ecosystems that are often linked to large external natural events. The vulnerability approach is mobilized by the sciences that deal with the management of environmental risks with the aim to determine the conditions allowing...
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Modeling the Impacts of a Discard Ban in a Mixed Fishery under Catch-Quota Management

Creator:: Thebaud, Olivier, Gourguet, Sophie, Lelong, Pierre, Doyen, Luc, Little, Rich, Smith, Anthony, and Pascoe, Sean
Abstract:: Individual Transferable catch-Quotas (ITQs) have become a popular management tool to reduce excess competition and foster economic efficiency in marine commercial fisheries. They have increasingly been used in more complex multispecies fisheries, where the by-catch of non-targeted species is common. In these fisheries, the reduction of discards is also being...
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How to Measure Economic Impacts with Multiple Interacting Policies?

Creator:: Sweeney, Jonathan, Howitt, Richard, Chan, HingLing, Pan, Minling, and Leung, PingSun
Abstract:: 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...
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Predators in the Market: Implications of Market Interaction on Optimal Resource Management

Creator:: Steinshamn, Stein Ivar
Abstract:: A two-species bioeconomic model is analyzed, but in contrast to most similar models, there is no biological interaction between the species, only economic. The interaction takes place in the market where the quantity of either species may affect the price of the other. Both the sole-owner and the open access...
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Cost Earnings Data Collection: Commercial Fishing Vessels along the Western US

Creator:: Steiner, Erin and Lian, Carl
Abstract:: The Northwest Fisheries Science Center has been collecting cost earnings data since 2003. The Center economists survey all commercial fishing vessels on the West Coast of the United States from San Diego, CA to Blaine, WA. These vessels range in size from less than 40 feet to more than 300...
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Hitting Capacity: Implications for the Valuation of Outdoor Recreation

Creator:: Hilger, James and Steiner, Christopher
Abstract:: Choices are often limited as the most popular alternatives reach capacity and sell out; thereafter, selection is over less preferred choices. In the context of nonmarket goods, willingness to pay (WTP) welfare measures provide an estimate of the value of characteristics – often calculated through the modeling of preferences using...
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Local Level Stakeholder Initiative: North Norwegian Municipalities' Reaction to Changes in Fisheries Management

Creator:: Sørdahl, Patrick Berg, Henriksen, Edgar, and Aarsæther, Nils
Abstract:: The industry owned trawlers land-lock obligation, originally intended to ensure both greater seasonal distribution of raw material as well as settlement in coastal communities, functions poorly and is being put under pressure. This is due to national and global trends in economics and politics, technological change and changing market conditions....
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Disease Risk and Market Structure in Salmon Aquaculture

Creator:: Smith, Martin, Fischer, Carolyn, and Guttormsen, Atle
Abstract:: We develop a model of a multinational firm producing commodities for a global market in multiple locations with location-specific risks and different regulatory standards. Salmon aquaculture and disease outbreaks provide an empirically relevant example. We specifically examine details of the infectious salmon anemia outbreak in Chile in the late 2000s,...
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Technological Changes, Market Structure and Harvest of a Local Pool Resource

Creator:: Skonhoft, Anders
Abstract:: In this paper an unregulated, but not open-access, fishery is studied and it is analyzed how more modern fishing technology may be a mixed blessing not only for the fish abundance, but also for the rent. The model is formulated in section two where it is included a strategic interaction...
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Weak Stock Bycatch Avoidance in the West Coast Ocean Salmon Fishery: A Bioeconomic Model Using Spatio-Temporal Data from Commercial Fishermen

Creator:: Otto, Saskia A., Simons, Sarah, Stoll, Josua, Lawson, Peter, and Lewis, Staci
Abstract:: The spatio-temporal overlap of morphologically undistinguishable weak and healthy stocks is a major concern for the Pacific Northwest troll Chinook salmon fishery. Regular fishery closures have led to major financial losses calling for alternative regulatory measures. One approach for such complex and pressing socio-ecological challenges is the transition towards transdisciplinary...
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Employment Effects of Volatility in Global Fisheries Production

Creator:: Scheld, Andrew
Abstract:: Climate change and continued fishing pressure threaten to increase recruitment variability for many wild stocks. Additionally, as many seafood markets are now integrated nationally and globally, individual fisheries may be less insulated from broad macroeconomic shocks. Large inter-annual shifts in fisheries production may have dramatic consequences for economically dependent industries...
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The Economic Impacts of Spatial Closures: Evidence from the Stellar Sea Lion Protective Measures in the North Pacific

Creator:: Reimer, Matthew and Haynie, Alan
Abstract:: Spatial closures are a prominent tool for ecosystem-based management in commercial fisheries. The potential benefits of spatial closures in commercial fisheries have been discussed thoroughly in the literature; however, empirical estimates of the potential short-run costs incurred by the commercial fishing industry are relatively scarce. Spatial closures constrain the ability...
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Integrating Different User Groups into Fishery Management

Creator:: Regnier, Esther and Quaas, Martin
Abstract:: Different user groups have different stakes in fisheries. The societal challenge is that, exploiting the same fish stock, or ecologically interacting stocks, recreational and customary fishermen interact with a continuum of commercial fishermen, ranging from very small-scale and part-time artisanal fishermen to large-scale fishing firms. In this paper we develop...
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Future Proofing the New Zealand Fisheries Management System

Creator:: Rees, Eugene
Abstract:: This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of New Zealand’s QMS. Over that time the system has evolved into a complex management system. Our fisheries management system is considered world-leading and scientific assessments show that overall our fisheries are sustainably managed and New Zealand is in a strong...
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Re-Thinking of Fisheries Management in Sri Lanka

Creator:: Rathnaweera, Erwin, Gunawardane, Nuwan, and Pullenayegem, Vasant
Abstract:: Scholars of natural resource systems increasingly refer to ‘governance’ as a crucial steering activity for sustainable management of natural resources. It is now common practice to speak of ‘ocean governance’, ‘coastal governance’, and ‘fisheries governance’. Within governance, sustainability and decentralization are two major factors that underpin the success of governance...
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Effectiveness and Efficiency of Alternative Fishery Management Approaches

Creator:: Quaas, Martin, Schmidt, Jörn O., and Voss, Rudi
Abstract:: The success of fishery management ultimately depends on the approach of implementation. Past fishery management has relied largely on technical regulations. Examples for such command-and-control measures include detailed gear prescriptions, restrictions on the days-at-sea spent fishing and vessel capacity, and minimum landing sizes. Resource economists have argued in favor of...
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Sunk Costs Equal Sunk Boats? Entry Costs in a Sequential Fishery

Creator:: Punt, Maarten
Abstract:: When climate change alters the distribution of fish stocks, stocks that were previously owned by a single country can suddenly become shared between countries. Current models predict that in such cases, if no agreement on management is formed, stocks may be severely depleted. A similar problem arises when a new...
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding and Presentation

Easy Online Data Dissemination and Research Tools: R Shiny and FISHEyE

Creator:: Pfeiffer, Lisa and Harsch, Melanie
Abstract:: The U.S. NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center has developed an online tool using the R package ‘Shiny' for the dissemination of data to the public (which is required under the NOAA plan for Public Access to Research Results (PARR)). However, the online application is very flexible and is useful to...
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A Safer Catch? Fisheries Management and Risk Taking in the Most Dangerous Industry

Creator:: Pfeiffer, Lisa
Abstract:: Fishing is the most dangerous job in the United States. When fisheries management creates the incentive to "race for fish", a fishing season can be reduced to only a few days and involve around-the-clock fishing in life-threatening weather conditions. Overloaded vessels, ignoring maintenance problems on vessels, and fishing in dangerous...
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Multispecies Fisheries Contracts with Asymmetric Information and Interdependent Species

Creator:: Pavlova, Yulia, Iho, Antti, Lindroos, Marko, and Ollikka, Kimmo
Abstract:: In the present paper we study effect of information uncertainty on efficiency of multispecies fishery contracts, when private harvesting costs are uncertain. A static game between a principal and two fishing fleets is considered, when fishermen are completely selective about allocation of their harvesting efforts between the commercial and non-commercial...
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Do Seafood Consumers Value Locally Caught Fish?

Creator:: Pascoe, Sean, Paredes, Samantha, Stoeckl, Natalie, Tobin, Renae, and Innes, James
Abstract:: Fisheries in Queensland, and elsewhere, are coming under increased pressure from other potential resource users for access to the resources. These include the fish resource itself (i.e. by recreational fishers), as well as encroachment on the area of the fishery through conservation based closures and onshore activities (e.g. port development)...
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Offsetting Externalities in Estimating MEY in Multispecies Fisheries

Creator:: Pascoe, Sean, Hutton, Trevor, and Hoshino, Eriko
Abstract:: The Australian federal fisheries policy identifies maximising net economic returns as the primary objective of fisheries management. This has largely been interpreted as maximising the net economic yield (MEY) in fisheries. For multispecies fisheries, this has been based on maximising the net present value of total profit in the fishery...
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A Bargain for Tuna: Coaseian Solutions to Bigeye Bycatch

Creator:: Ovando, Daniel and Libecap, Gary
Abstract:: Many of the world’s most valuable fisheries involve highly migratory stocks that cross national jurisdictions. These same fisheries face severe threats from direct overfishing or excessive bycatch. Traditional input and/or output controls generally have been costly and ineffective. Incentive-based programs that provide tradable shares in an annual total allowable catch...
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