The fishing industry is particularly important for Sri Lankans for the domestic supply but there is also a
small but growing export market for high value products. The potential for economic development lies
there with yellowfin tuna as the most important specie. In this research the efficiency and productivity of...
Fishery is one of the sub-sectors of agri-cultural sector which plays a
significant role in the economy of Bangladesh. However, fishermen are
deprived from getting reasonable prices of their catches due to a large price
spread between the price paid by the ultimate consumers or users and price
received by...
Fresh fish trade in Kribi, Cameroon is characterized by high uncertainty in a context of specific assets. Facing this uncertainty, actors have developed hybrid coordination mechanisms centered on contractual arrangements and networks. These implicit contractual arrangements involve price negotiation, delivery agreements between fishermen and buyers, as well as transactions including...
Although many countries develop dominating export conventions aimed
for strengthen the fishing industry export based economy, the export
performance varies. The institutional reasons for such differences in
performance are investigated in a comparative study of the Norwegian and
Icelandic export of salted cod to the Spanish market. Iceland has over...
The two main pillars of the Icelandic fishing industry are the large vertically integrated fishing companies and the SMEs, specialised in fishing, producing or marketing. In order to understand how they are able to function side by side and at the same time secure a relatively high value added for...
The main objective of this paper is to analyze the economics effects that
the Prestige oil spill over (2003) had on the Basque coastal fishing industry
by means of a two-stage stochastic production frontier approach. The first
stage is based on the econometric specification of a parametric production
frontier based...
A Seafood Environmental Management Systems manual (SEMS) has been developed by Bord Iascaigh
Mhara (The Irish Sea Fisheries Board) in conjunction with the Irish fishing industry to encourage
fishermen to adopt an environmentally conscious, responsible and compliant approach to their business.
The documented risk-based SEMS approach developed is essentially a...
Due in part to limitations in data and models, fishery managers have been
hindered in their efforts to simultaneously address economic and ecological
effects of management measures. In the US, this promotes violation of
National Standard 8 of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, which mandates that conservation...
Much of fish consumed by the poor are caught by household members and
traded in local markets. These fish trades are rarely or poorly included in
national statistics, and it is therefore difficult to estimate precisely the real
contribution of fish to food and nutrition security. The WorldFish Center
recently...
This paper examines differences and changes in fishing activity among
individual ports in a multi-species fishery using shift-share analysis. We
describe overall trends in the fishing industry in north-central California
and examine the extent to which different ports have fared differently.
Trends in trips, boats, and revenue indicate that the...