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Are Fishers Better or Worse Off from a Swordfish Fishery Closure? -- An Endogenous Switching Model for the Hawaii-based Longline Fisheries

Creator:

Ming, Timothy

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The swordfish fishery is one of Hawaii's most lucrative, and also most highly regulated, fisheries. According to the United Fishing Agency (UFA) fish auction data in 2005, average swordfish (shallow-set) revenue per trip was $76,897.03 and average tuna (deep-set) revenue per trip was $36,382.14. Swordfish trips, however, comprised of only...

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The Potential for Insurance to Mediate Economic Risks in Marine Fisheries

Creator:

Mumford, John, Leach, Adrian, Levontin, Polina, and Kell, Laurence

Abstract:

In agriculture there has been a long history of using a levy or an insurance premium to create mutual funds to mediate economic risks to growers due to environmental variability and quarantine pests. In the United States the federal government, through the USDA, continues to underwrite funds (collected by private...

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Research Paper

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and regulation. The EC Framework 6 project PRONE, of which this work forms a part, is intended to