Van Chai are traditional fishing associations in Binh Dinh province, mainly distributing in coastal areas. In spite of experiencing many ups and downs, suffering great impacts of market economic and cultural integration, these villages still exist until now. However, many cultural features of the Van Chai have been gradually lost...
Unlike the North and the South where abundance of freshwater, the marine capture fisheries is underdeveloped, the Central Coast, especially South Central Coast with little freshwater fisheries resources, but high amount of shrimps, fishes at sea, thus local fishermen have exploited this resource for living early. Together with this living...
Le but de cette communication est de démontrer que le recrutement et le membership au sein d'unités de production qui se consacrent à la pêche côtière ne sont pas uniquement conditionnés par des modifications dans la technologie. Ils s'insèrent aussi dans des chartes cognitives et sociales qui, en plus d'intégrer...
Coastal nations can impose conditions of use on foreign fishing firms that operate in their Exclusive Economic Zone. We develop a game-theoretical model in which a fishery owner maximizes the revenue that it collects from firms that operate in its EEZ by charging them a fishing fee. We find that...
Considering the operational needs on fisheries management, this research was aimed for understanding the adjustment processes of small-scaled fishing gear dynamic by measuring and analysing the seasonal fishing gear dynamic including seasonal fishing pattern and fishing gear interaction. To understand the fishermen's adaptation of their fishing effort from any changes...
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing activities are a threat for both the marine environment and society. By undermining effective management systems, IUU fishing activities not only generate harmful effects on economic and social welfare, but also reduce the incentives to comply with rules. The issue of IUU fishing has...
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that economic institutions matter, i.e., that different rules of trade present different incentives for bidding, asking and trading in new markets, and that these different incentives lead to different price discovery patterns which yield materially different outcomes. In a laboratory tradable fishing...
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is mandated by law to analyze the benefits, costs, and economic impacts of the recreational fisheries policies it promulgates. NMFS has developed single species models that predict welfare and effort changes stemming from changes in various recreational regulations. Little is known, however, about angler...
Up to now cost measurements in the Senegalese demersal fisheries have been limited to the assessment of the financial viability of fleets or the comparison between revenues of the fleet and costs of the management. But all of these works are only concerned with the financial cost of fishing activity....
The tsunami waves that hit Sri Lanka on the 26th December 2004 have decimated coastal fishing communities. Fishery in Sri Lanka is largely small scale and they are among the poorest communities in the country. Fishers have not only been affected by loss of lives or substantial damage to their...