On the basis of literatures and the data from stratified sampling of 160 fishing vessels in the East Sea Region of China, the process of institutional transition of operational systems of fishing vessels in the region, which started from 1979, their present situation and performance were analysed in this paper....
The relatively new aquaculture industry of sea bream and sea bass has grown rapidly in Mediterranean
countries over the past decade. Greece is the leading production country and Spain is becoming the major
market for the two species.
Despite the importance of the industry, in that it contributes to the...
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was signed in Washington, D.C. in late 1946. All 14
signatories were whaling nations. Apart from some whaling by their indigenous people, none of the original 14 whale today, and some
such as the United States, Australia and New Zealand have played...
The Japanese system of local management has been heralded as a successful system for managing coastal resources. Despite such general success, however, fishing cooperatives and their respective members currently face internal and external pressures from over-fishing, pollution, and life in an industrialized society. Further, the Japanese government has pushed for...
The north coast of Java Sea is home to thousands of small-scale fishers fishing for small pelagic fish. The
small pelagic fisheries have been the main economic and social activities for coastal communities where
other alternatives are limited. The fisheries have been experiencing turbulent states during the last thirty
years...
Shellfish farmers make their production decisions in an environment characterized by multiple
uncertainty. As shellfish farming is done in an open area, producers face a large number of risks:
e.g. biological, environmental, pollution or climatic risks. Historically, this sector has been
affected by several crisis; the last ones were the...
I believe quetzal and aguacatillo are the key species in the cloud forests in Cerro de la Muerte because they are biologically and culturally valuable. This value contributes to ecotourism, which eventually becomes of economic benefit to local people. In this paper, I examine how the cloud forest conservation and...
Under the new Law of the Sea, the definition of exclusive zones was considered an important first step towards improved management of the world's fisheries. However, one of the limits to the effectiveness of extended Jurisdictions was the problem of transboundary fish stocks. This question recently appeared at the centre...
In the Philippines as elsewhere in Asia, working children in the fisheries sector is pervasive yet tends to be invisible. Their exclusion in the fisheries development equation is perpetrated by public ignorance and apathy. Aimed at increasing public awareness and understanding of this phenomenon, this study on the girl- and...
This paper formulates a simple biomass growth model of a fishery. The property rights regime is of the unregulated local common property type with a fixed number of fishermen and where the fish stock is exploited in a myopic profit-maximizing manner. Within this resource management setting it is demonstrated that...