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A Simple Matter of Herring Fishery Management

Creator:

Gates, John, Kitts, Andrew, and Logan, Philip

Abstract:

In 1996, the US New England Fishery Management Council formed a technical team (PDT) to develop a new plan for Atlantic Herring (Clupea harengus harengus). The inshore stock was close to fully exploited while the offshore stock was underexploited. There were few full-time herring harvesters and very few processors. Fresh...

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A Tale of Two Crises: Socioeconomic Comparison of Iceland´s Herring Collapse in 1968 and Banking Collapse in 2008

Creator:

Sigurdsson, Thorir

Abstract:

40 years ago the Atlanto-Scandian herring stock collapsed with severe consequences for Iceland´s monotonic economy at that time. Two years ago the international credit crisis brought the country´s largest banks to insolvency, which shocked the whole economy with butterfly effects in neighbouring countries. The paper begins with an overview of...

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The Norwegian Winter Herring Fishery: A Story Technological Progress and Collapse

Creator:

Hannesson, Rögnvaldur and Gordon, Daniel

Abstract:

The herring stocks in the Northeast Atlantic were nearly fished to extinction in the 1970s. This collapse is usually attributed to advances in fishing technology. The impact of productivity shocks depends critically on how sensitive the fish catch is to the size of the stock. If the catch per unit...

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