If fisheries management is supposed to affect behaviour, it has to be enforced. Fisheries
enforcement has generally been found to be quite costly compared to the attainable rents from
the fishery. This has a number of important implications. First, obviously, it is economically
important to operate the enforcement activity at...
Two of the main problems in fisheries management are over-fishing and
over-capacity driven by the production externality inherent in common
property resource use. Quotas have been introduced to cap total catches,
and regulations such as input restrictions and limited entry have been used
to reduce the capacity problem. Economists generally...
It has been established that the path of a fishery over time, i.e. stocks, fleets, effort and profits, depends inter alia on the enforcement of the fisheries management rules in place. It has further been established that optimal enforcement of fisheries management rules depends inter alia on the shadow value...
When fishers can avoid detection and/or sanctions for violating fisheries management rules, the fisheries enforcement problem becomes substantially more complicated. A number of issues immediately pop up. First, the effectiveness of enforcement effort is reduced. This, ceteris paribus, reduces the optimal enforcement effort. Second, the impact on the fishery of...
Recent literature on trade in fisheries products and in factors of production for fishing can be used to ask when it might be welfare increasing to encourage government financial transfers (GFTs) in the fisheries. Using numerical techniques and assuming a small open one factor 2 good economy with production inefficiencies...
This study extends Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the motivation to consume fish in a representative survey of Vietnamese individuals. The emperical study is based on using the structural equation approach to test construct valitidy of measures and the emperical fit of theoretical model. The results show that...