Many recreational fisheries are managed under regulated open access governed by seasonal closures and bag limits. This approach has often promoted a “race to the fish” with cascades of shorter seasons and shrinking bag limits. These restrictions may have significant effects on angler welfare by inefficiently allocating fish across anglers,...
Recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico has followed a familiar pattern to that observed in many commercial fisheries: fishing under regulated open access has promoted a “race to the fish” with cascades of shorter seasons, shrinking bag limits, and significant discards. These restrictions may have significant effects on angler...
We suggest freshness as a critical factor in determining fishing trip duration. Using daily logbook data from a Japanese-based longline fishery, we find that prices are highly elastic with respect to the freshness of the product, with a 1% decrease in our freshness measure corresponding with a 3.85% decrease in...
This paper will discuss the processes and outputs of implementing a three year project on ecosystem-based fisheries management (EAFM) in Lombok, Indonesia. The discussion will cover the theoretical framework, implementation strategies (diagnosis, establishing management plan, and implementing the management options) and the outputs. In particular, it will highlight the community...
The world’s fisheries are widely considered to be in ecological crisis. One governance solution is private standards, including ecolabelling. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for ‘sustainable’ seafood, with good players rewarded with price premiums or market share and bad players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however,...
Notwithstanding the increasing use of area and seasonal closures to promote the sustainable use of coral reef fisheries, few studies have examined the socio-economic performance of these management strategies. This study describes small-scale fishermen's views regarding the biological and socioeconomic performance of these management tools off Puerto Rico. Our findings,...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5313: Analyzing behavioral responses to regulation – what can be learned for management? The session was organized by Florian K. Diekert,...
The paper presents a vessel level simulation model of the impact of a landing obligation on a typical Scottish demersal trawler under a discard ban in addition to existing quota management controls. The simulation model is based on a simple microeconomic model of firm behaviour and predicts landings, discards and...
Joint production of multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services that enter in multiple markets complicates the standard interpretations of baselines, additionality, and the process of stacking. Intuitively, joint production means that the process of providing the multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services is interrelated, and nonjointness means that each offset or ecosystem...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5313: Analyzing behavioral responses to regulation – what can be learned for management? The session was organized by Florian Diekert and...