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Creator:: Willmann, Rolf
Abstract:: An ITQ scheme has been shown to create a quota induced incentive for discarding of fish in excess of what is socially optimal. This finding is corroborated by empirical evidence in several ITQ managed fisheries. The incentive for discarding, over and above those expected in an unmanaged or input controlled...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: by Rolf Willmann1[1] Fishery planing officer Fishery Policy and Planning Division Food and

Creator:: Arnason, Ragnar and Willmann, Rolf
Abstract:: According to conventional economic wisdom the economically more efficient technology will always outcompete the less efficient. This hypothesis has usually been taken to hold for the exploitation of common pool renewable natural resources such as fish stocks. This paper claims that, while this is not necessarily false, it may be...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: : ragnara@hi.is Rolf Willmann Senior Fishery Planning Officer, FAO. E-mail: rolf.willmann@fao.org

Creator:: Clark, Colin, Munro, Gordon, and Sumaila, U. Rashid
Abstract:: A debate is emerging over the extent to which privatization of fishery resources – private ownership and resource management without significant state oversight- is practical and socially desirable. What we term the “optimists” maintain that there are no effective limits to privatization and that the decades old fear that privatization...
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Full Text:: period of time (Rolf Willmann, FAO, personal communication). The authors would suggest that the South

Creator:: Thorpe, Andy and Reid, Chris
Abstract:: Poverty reduction and food security are key development concerns articulated through Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). This paper examines the fisheries sector's participation in these strategies. Adapting Oksanen and Mersmann's (2002) methodology for assessing the status of forestry in Sub-Saharan Africa, we evaluate the fisheries sector's representation in twenty-nine African...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: Service is gratefully acknowledged. Comments from Rolf Willmann, Fabio Pittaluga, Benoit Horemans and

Creator:: Tokrisna, Ruangrai
Abstract:: A rapid increase in the Thai trawl and push net fisheries had led to over fishing and thus fishery resource degradation. Catch per unit effort decreased from over 300 kg/hr in the past 30 years to less than 20 kg/hr recently. The impact has placed a greater burden on coastal...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: Institute for Fishery Research and Rolf Willmann from FAO. It is multi-species, multi-fleet dynamic

Creator:: Kennedy, John
Abstract:: Highly migratory fish stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean are an important source of income for those Pacific island nations through whose economic zones the stocks pass, and for distant water fishing nations that target the stocks. Although the tropical stocks have been regarded in the past as...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: , Annick Van Houtte, and Rolf Willmann, 2004, The conservation and management of shared fish stocks

Creator:: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Onozaka, Yuko, Morita, Tamaki, and Managi, Shunsuke
Abstract:: Seafood ecolabel, such as Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label continues to expand worldwide, particularly in European and US markets. Consumers’ response to ecolabeled seafood products in these markets has been studied in the past, mostly with encouraging results. Meanwhile, and after a decade since the establishment of MSC, seafood ecolabel...
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Full Text:: , Kevern Cochrane, Carolyn Deere, Paul Wallis, and Rolf Willmann. 2001. Product certification and

Creator:: Marsden, A. Dale and Sumaila, U. Rashid
Abstract:: We estimated the economic rent obtained currently (that is, in 2002) in the Namibian hake fishery and the rent that might potentially be obtainable if the fishery were managed optimally in the sense of economics. We first reviewed previous economic and biological studies. We then used the theory and model...
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Full Text:: Ragnar Arnason and Rolf Willmann for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. 11 IIFET 2008

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