This presentation provides an introduction to the FAO-World Bank Rent Drain Study. The objective of the study is to present the story of the world's depleted and overexploited marine fisheries in economic terms.
The study develops an economic justification at the global level for restoring the health of fish stocks....
This paper estimates current resource rents being generated in the Icelandic cod fishery and compares them to the maximum sustainable attainable ones. For this purpose a simple aggregative model of the cod fishery is specified and empirically estimated. It is found that in spite of the cod stock being in...
This report presents the results of bio-economic assessment studies of the Bohai Sea & the Yellow Sea and the associated fisheries management. The studies, which were facilitated through workshop with the participation of international experts, included fisheries resources rent assessments and causal chain analysis to determine the rent losses in...
The paper analyzes the recent behavior of the Peruvian Anchoveta Sector, the largest single stock fishery in the world. It describes the different phases of boom and contraction that it has undergone since the 1960s, and how the lack of adequate regulation allowed –and even fostered– over-investment in the sector...