Fisheries affect fish stocks through their exploitation rate and exploitation pattern. Both influence the economic yield from the fish stock. In regulated fisheries, the exploitation rate is determined either by the acceptable level of fishing effort or catch, whereas the exploitation pattern is determined by selectivity of gears and/or regulatory...
The Norwegian fish processing industry is an old industry and organising of production has been solved by fishing vessels catching fish and selling it fresh directly to processing plants located on shore close to the richest fishing areas. During the last decade an increasing part of the catch has been...
New Zealand’s quota management system, the QMS, has for years been considered as one of the most successful rights-based fisheries management system in the world. Although the hard evidence is at best patchy, New Zealand’s fishing industry is performing well ahead of most competitors, both in economic, biological and administrative...
After joining the WTO, easier access to Taiwanese market due to tariff reductions and deregulation of import restriction is expected to have substantial impacts on the fishery sector in Taiwan. Comparing to the tariff rates in 2001, the average tariff rates of fishery products will decrease 35.5%, in 2004. Especially,...
Loligo gahi (Patagonian longfin squid) has been the target of a major trawl fishery in the waters around the Falkland Islands since the early 1980s. The catch of this short-lived species can fluctuate markedly due to variation in seasonal recruitment. Ex-vessel prices of loligo are also variable due to international...
The extent to which demand and supply shocks are transmitted in the value chain is an important topic. As many value chains cross international borders exchange rate pass through is an important element in this context. In this paper a multivariate system that allow us to test different hypothesis with...
Management of individual species in a multi-species fishery poses a number of challenges for fishery management systems, including the problem of managing fish bycatch. Fish bycatch is sometimes identified as a particular problem associated with management systems based on individual transferable quotas (ITQs) but this has not always proven to...
The objective of this paper is to present a parsimonious forecasting model for the fishmeal price. The focus is on the soybean meal market’s impact on the fish meal price through the soybean meal futures price together with the stocks-to-use as an indicator of demand and supply conditions. A salient...
Although the 1982 UNCLOS endeavoured to establish EEZs and assist coastal states in being able to manage the resources throughout their range to some extent, it became obvious that further agreements were necessary to expand upon states’ international obligations in relation to conservation and management of living resources on the...
This paper is a study of the production technology and relative efficiency of vessels harvesting tiger prawns in the northern prawn fishery (NPF), one of Australia’s largest and most lucrative fishing areas. It is based on a unbalanced panel data set of 228 observations among thirty-seven vessels for the years...
Until recently the execution of the fisheries management schemes in the Netherlands was to a large extend centralized. In 1993, however, part of the executionary responsibilities was delegated to the fishing industry. In this new system, responsibilities in the management of individual transferable quota (ITQs) has been devolved to groups...
In this paper an extended version of the well-known Faustmann model is developed for solving the rotation problem in fish farming. Two particularly important aspects of the problem are emphasized: namely first, the possibilities for cycles in relative price relationships and second, the problem with limitations in release time for...
Recent increases in the volume of canning grade tuna caught in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has led to concern about the increasing catching capacity of the fleet of purse seine vessels operating in the fishery. In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to examine the...
This paper explores the issue of using marine reserves in combination with quotas as fisheries management tools. The underlying biological dynamics are described by a patchy environment model, in which a metapopulation is built up by linked sub-populations that are distributed across a set of spatially discrete habitats or patches....
Globalization may affect companies in the fish-processing industry in many ways. For some, globalization poses new threats, for others it represents new opportunities. Some companies see their benefit of being located close to the resources vanish, as resources are brought out of the region, processed in low-wage countries, and distributed...
Current fisheries management approaches based on centralised government intervention have proven inadequate to deal with the present management and cannot meet its objectives including reverting stock depletion, resolving user group conflicts, increase profitability and prevent social disruption. There is no easy solution to this problem. New institutions enabling fishing communities...
Main research question: How is seafood consumption influenced by overweight and health beliefs in a region of traditional high-level fish consumption? Materials and methods: A randomly drawn sample of women aged 45-69 years who live in Northern Norway answered a self-administrated questionnaire about eating habits, socioeconomic factors and questions related...
Atlantic salmon aquaculture is a growing industry in the Bay of Fundy on Canada’s Atlantic coast. The vast majority of aquaculture sites are concentrated in a relatively small coastal region of the province of New Brunswick (NB) where the industry is viewed as a major component of regional economic development....
In 1998, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) launched a series of marine recreational angler expenditure survey in the Northeast (NE) management region (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia). This series was extended to the Southeast (SE) management region (North Carolina,...
The French Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) fishery situated in the Biscay Bay is composed by about 250 costal trawlers. These boats are registered in harbours located in South Brittany (Le Guilvinec, Lorient, Concarneau) and in the Vendée (Sables d'Olonnes, La Cotinière). The main particularity of the fishery is that lobsters...
Effects of age, period and birth cohort on consumption of fat fish, lean fish and processed fish were estimated based on panel data from the Norwegian Women and Seafood Consumption Study (NOWAC). Cohorts selected for the present analysis were women born between 1951 and 1966. Survey questionnaires were mailed to...
Western Australia operates a diverse enforcement and education program aimed at achieving high compliance in a wide range of commercial and recreational fisheries managed using a mix of input and output controls. Since enforcement resources are invariably insufficient to totally eliminate non-compliance with fishery rules, it is important to ensure...
A recent study in agricultural products has brought out evidence of asymmetrical transmission of price changes according to the sign (positive or negative) of past variation. Interestingly, asymmetry was more commonplace for products with a lower elasticity of supply due to the perishable nature of products. A similar study based...
The South Australian rock lobster fishery is about 2,700 tonnes annual catch and is accessed by commercial, charter and amateur fishers. The commercial sector is managed in two zones, one based on input controls and the other on individual transferable quotas. The commercial sector pays 100% of the costs of...
Fish are marketed with various intermediaries between producers and final consumers. The number and the nature of the intermediaries, market structures at each stage of the value chain and other factors related to the organisation of markets may substantially affect the transmission of information throughout the chain. The present study...
The market for fish products in Finland has changed markedly since the removal of trade barriers after the country's accession to the EU in 1995. Further the transition from a producer to a consumer-oriented society has created numerous new demands for food products. New dietary trends, such as low fat...
The aim of this paper is to assist teaching undergraduate students how to analyse the issue of fish stock investment. The mathematical prerequisites are a basic knowledge of calculus. Both discrete and continuos time frameworks are used. To fish down or to build up a fish stock takes time, and...
Fisheries economists have studied fisheries managed with ITQs and compared them to fisheries that are differently managed. Most of these studies have found ITQs to be economically superior. This paper studies the ITQ-fisheries in Iceland. It focuses on features that are difficult to explain using traditional fisheries economics. It is...
At a hearing about the Green Paper (an analysis of the EU fisheries policy over the last 10 years and an outlook for the next decade) the following statement was given by an economist: „The Ecosystem Approach is the fata morgana of the fisheries biologists.“ Indeed, a lot of biologists...
Differences in technical efficiency of fishing vessels are often attributed to skipper skill and differences in technology. While the later can be defined in terms of the technology employed, the former is more difficult to quantify. In this paper, the contribution of technology and skipper characteristics (e.g. level of education,...
In 1998, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary initiated the “Tortugas 2000” planning process that would lead to the eventual designation (2001) of the largest marine reserve in the US: The Dry Tortugas Ecological Reserve (DTER). This resulting research, targeted commercial fishermen operating in the DTER region, determining the total...
The paper presents a detailed approach to modeling supply and demand of the Asian fish sector. It discusses the salient features of the fish sector in Asian countries that need to be incorporated in a comprehensive model of fish supply and demand, as well as the usefulness of supply and...
In this paper we define the regulatory structure of the New Zealand Quota Management System (QMS) and document key changes in its operation over time. We document the relevant legislation that affected the quota market from the Fisheries Act 1983 forward. We describe how the QMS operates in New Zealand...
The harvest technology of several multispecies fisheries has been explained in the recent literature using dual-based models. These studies are useful for explaining rent dissipation, estimating input and output elasticities, as well as describing other aspects of fisherman behavior. Most of these analyses have assumed that inputs are fixed at...
Since the collapse of the Newfoundland groundfishery in 1992, the snow crab fishery has become Newfoundland’s largest fishery, accounting for approximately half the value of total landings. This study uses trip log data to estimate the production frontier and the technical efficiency of this fishery using a Stochastic Frontier Analysis...
The purpose of this study is to estimate the institutional change to the fisheries management system caused by the TAC system in Japan, referring to the case study of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in the western Japan Sea. Snow crab fisheries management in Japan has been carried out based on...
Using a general equilibrium model that has a resource (fisheries) sector and that incorporates subsistence consumption into consumer preferences, we examine the costs and benefits of participating in international trade. In some cases income transfers may permit potential, but otherwise unachievable, gains from trade to occur.
The incorporation of fisheries commodities into the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) model suggests that demand for fisheries products will rise faster than supply over the next two decades, and that fishery commodity prices will rise relative to...
Growth parameters and mortality of the tigertooth croaker (Otolithes ruber) were estimated from length
frequency data collected during trawl surveys in the Persian Gulf (Bushehr waters) from 1997-1998. LFDA and
FiSAT Programs were used for data analyses. Growth parameters were estimated as L∞ = 58 cm and K = 0.8...
This paper presents a introduction of the developed system by that fisherman share various information. This system is characterized by the application of data mining methods and the introduction of IC tags. We compute the predict price formula by data mining of product value. The predict price of each port...
China is a large developing country with 1.28 billion of population, per capita’s income is continually increasing; the population is also increasing, so that the demand for human eatable consumption of fishery products is increasing significantly. During 1995 to 2001, the average annually increasing rate of per capita’s GDP was...
The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The country has a total area of 48,442 km², a narrow insular shelf of 9,484 km² and an EEZ of approximately 238,000 km². Around 10,000 fishers with a fleet of 3,750 boats, operate from the 1,575 km of coastline to...
In recently years, the finance sector had focused their attention on commerce operation in China.When fisheries farmers decide to increase invent to promote production, they also can't get enough loans because aquaculture is a highest risk sector in agriculture and the commercial banks would prefer others sector in agriculture to...
El-Nino Southern Oscillation has many impacts on marine environment. During El-Nino 1997-1998, there has been a change in sea surface temperature in Bali water. Bali water is an important contributor for pelagic fisheries, such as Sardinella lemuru, Thunnus sp, Katsuwonus pelamis, and Euthynnus sp. Sardinella lemuru is emphasized, because the...
Whale meat has been one of traditional diets in Japan. However whaling is now prohibited except for the purpose of scientific research. Therefore it is important to keep an eye on poaching and to make distribution routes clear to obtain an international credibility. Then it is highly required to build...
Weitzman (2002) has shown that with a stochastic growth function and uncertainty in estimating stock size, landing fees will be superior to quotas as a means of controlling fish harvest. Hannesson and Kennedy (2003) expand the analysis by considering variable availability of fish, random fish prices, and non-constant returns to...
An integrated coastal management plan has become an increasingly important tool to accommodate coastal resource utilization that is multisectoral in nature. The idea of adopting this strategy comes from the fact that coastal resources consist of various valuable assets that should be utilized in a sustainable fashion. This paper emphasizes...
New forms of coordinations adapted to competition changes and new market conditions have recently emerged within the fisheries commercial channel. They redistribute the value added between the various actors and also bear significant consequences on fishing practices and resource exploitation. Two main reasons have led to the restructurings: - the...
As fisheries resources in the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the Japan Sea have the tendency to decrease, the purpose of this study is to identify the problems of the co-management by comparing the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) system between Japan and the Republic of Korea (Korea) in...
These three case studies of local fishery policy in Japan examine common causes of a successful fishery policy. This study tries to seek answer on "How did successful cases on Japanese local fishery policy succeed?" To find answer to this question, this study analyzed the relationship and the role of...
The British Columbia Seafood industry has witnessed fundamental and unprecedented changes to its business environment since the early 1990's. These changes include worldwide phenomena such as changes in consumer tastes and world economies, globalization, the growth of aquaculture, the growing and influential environmental movement, and the need for greater traceability...
This is a vogue to do fish farming in a pond or other water body inside and outside of the household in rural scenario of Bangladesh as an agriculture-aquaculture farming for a long time. Even the fish farming with profit or income generation among the fish farmers has taken place...
The new fishery order of Japan, China and the Republic of Korea (Korea) has changed their supply-and-demand structure (SDS) of marine products. This study observes the hagfish fishing which started in the Japanese coast/offshore, and the change of the international SDS. The present condition will be arranged as a framework...
Resource management under Individual Transferable Quota System (ITQ’s) is similar to that of Total Allowable Catch system. It, however, is said that the former is more difficult than the latter. In this paper, by analysing the case of the New Zealand’s ITQ’s during Fiscal Year 1991 and 2001, the current...
Between 1996 and 2000, the Federal Government of Canada reduced the number of salmon fishing licences in British Columbia by 50%, from a total of 4416 to the current 2221 licences, through voluntary “licence retirement”. The total cost of this program was $273.5 million over 5 years. The purpose of...
As world farmed salmon production has grown, so has the intensity of the debate over salmon farming. Critics have characterized salmon farming as environmentally, economically and socially unsound and irresponsible. This paper argues that underlying much of the salmon farming debate is a far broader debate over many of the...
Recently, the number of leisure fishers has increased in Japan. Recreational anglers have caught larger numbers of fishes than commercial fishermen in some species. Formulating an appropriate management strategy that considers recreational and commercial sectors is important. Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) has been caught in Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan, by...
This paper provides a brief description of the two key institutional designs of Japanese coastal fisheries and their role in cooperative fishery management. It is well known that Japanese fishery management regime utilizes fishery cooperatives, called Fishery Cooperative Associations (FCAs), which they are granted territorial user rights (called common fishing...
Individual Transferable Quota systems (ITQ's) were implemented in the Icelandic groundfish fisheries in 1984, or twenty years ago. The system was not a 'pure' ITQ system from the beginning, notably with different regulations for different fleet segments and with several changes along the way. The current system has mostly been...
This paper is intended to examine and discuss in what way output control, one of the fisheries management measures, is effective in reducing over-capacity, and can become an effective means towards sustainable management of living marine resources. It was made clear theoretically and empirically that output control is applicable as...
The fisheries sector is an important contributor to the Indonesian economy in terms of protein supply, employment and income generation. Average per capita of fish consumption was 18,00 kg in 1990 and 22,84 kg in 2002. In the last 13 years, the dietary life of Indonesian people mainly consist of...
The rapid increase in global aquaculture production since the early nineties has increased the demand for fishmeal as an ingredient in aquafeed. This increase has been hypothesized as the source of disruption in the fishmeal market by researchers such as Delgado et al. In this paper we evaluate whether or...
Japanese salmon fishery is facing a juncture of existence and pressed for the improvement of constitution. The decline of high-seas salmon fisheries was taken and the import amount increased rapidly. In addition, domestic production by coastal set net fisheries has increased with a success of salmon enhancement in Japan. Salmon...
Atlantic Sea scallops have historically supported the second most valuable fishery in the northeastern United States. Intense fishing pressure during the early 1990s led to drastic decreases in population biomass and commercial landings. Total harvest, which exceeded 17,000 metric tons (MT) in 1990, declined to around 7,300 MT in 1993....
The article discusses the issue and complexities that arise when two sectors, fisheries and marine tourism, grown and imply for an institution governing coral reef ecosystem either government based or community based. Even though, a community-based management system is commonly recognized as a better way in governing the resources, the...
The fishery cooperative association of Akita Prefecture closed the sailfin sandfish Arctoscopus japonicus fisheries from 1992 to 1994 to rehabilitate the stock. Following the temporary closure, the total allowable catch (TAC) has gradually increased. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the fishery moratorium and other...
There is a high level of fishery resources exploitation in dense coastal waters region such as North Coast of Java. This is because of the increasing numbers of traditional fishing gears was concentrated on the territory. For the past ten years, the rate of resource utilization in Tegal waters and...
Inland fish farming is still a mystery for the economic development of Africa. Many African countries especially in the south of the Sahara do not largely practice inland fish farming for commercial purposes. This is because many Africans still believe in their economic redemption through crop production, grants and or...
This study addresses the factors that are causing a shortage of successors in fishery and possible countermeasures. The interrelating structure of these factors was clarified using the DEMATEL (DEcision MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) method and the effectiveness of the countermeasures was evaluated. Problem-causing factors were also hierarchized using ISM...
Over the past 20 years, the demand for fish has changed markedly. The species prevalent in the consumption mix has altered to reflect the greater availability of farmed species such as salmon, and the decline in some of the more common marine-caught demersal species such as cod. This paper examines...
Sewerage feed fishing farming is being practiced in many parts of the world. In this type of fish farming domestic and industrial sewerage discharged from bug metropolis are utilized for fish farming. Utilization of sewerage for fish farming has been an alternative for treatment. As installation of sewerage treatment plants...
Two successful cases of sea urchin enhancement activities were considered using the experiences of two neighboring provinces in Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte, both located in Northwestern Luzon, Philippines. One case was done at the coastal waters of Nagabungan Bay in Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, which experienced a decline in sea...
There are approximately 3000 fishing ports in Japan and there have been strong criticisms against the dispersed construction of fishing ports. The dispersed construction of the fishing ports is inevitable and historical consequence of the style of the production and life of fishing operators. In recent years, with the fishing...
This paper analyzes the behavior of fishing households under individual transferable quotas (ITQ) system based on Singh, Squire and Strauss household model. ITQ system is sought to be the optimal fishery management regime in terms of economic efficiency. However, preceding theoretical analyses only considered implementing ITQ to a well established...
Quota management systems (QMS) provide faith-based incentives for individual quota holders to conserve the resource voluntarily; quota holders expect the system to work and to be enforced and their expectations are usually realized despite imperfect incentives and significant enforcement burdens. Even with QMS there is never an individual incentive to...
The purpose of this paper was to understand e-learning current situation for fisherman in Taiwan. Then, the developing strategies will be suggested. The method of this study was questionnaire and interview with fisherman and fishery experts. There were 270 questionnaires collected by post mail. The return rate is 54%. The...
This paper examines the roles of non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in improving the status of open water fisheries resources in Bangladesh. NGOs are traditionally involved mostly in micro-credit operations as they are highly experienced and skilled in this area, but they have not been working for improving the natural resources management...
Tasmania's abalone, rock lobster and scalefish fisheries have an annual beach price value of about A$120, A$64 and A$10 million respectively. Whilst small by overseas standards, Tasmania's fishing industry is an important part of this small island State's predominantly rural income, amounting to some 16% of total agricultural production. It...
The CHARM Project is a 5-years project (2002-2007) of the Royal Thai Government supported by the European Union. Its focus on developing coastal habitats and resources co-management processes is based on the assumption that the most important aspect of inefficient use of coastal resources lies at the institutional level. Among...
Half of Bangladesh (50% of land surface) is wetland and wetland supplies most of the freshwater fisheries in Bangladesh. Tanguar Haor (haor means wetland with vast waterbodies) is a declared Ramsar site which posses one of the largest fishery stock in the country. However, there is no clear-cut guidance in...