Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
The rapid growth of aquaculture affects wild fisheries in several ways. We present a bioeconomic model of the interaction between capture based aquaculture that depending on harvest of wild juvenile organisms with a wild fishery, including an effect of marine reserve implementation. We assume the catch of wild juveniles for...
A marine protected area (MPA) is a management tool used for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries development, but it is less used for non-extractive uses of ecosystems such as eco-tourism. We estimate the willingness-to-pay for improved environmental qualities of the Nha Trang Bay MPA on one hand and employment effects...