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  • This paper reports on an economic experiment conducted to examine the nature of rent dissipation in limited entry fisheries with aggregate quotas, and factors affecting fishermen's political support for changing to individual quota management. The experimental subjects are fishermen who participate in a series of fishing seasons. The experiment assumes that (a) managers limit aggregate harvests each season to a total quota; (b) individual fishermen's shares of the total catch are positively related to their share of total fishing expenditures; (c) individual fishermen's shares of the total catch are positively related to their assigned fishing skill, and (d) rents are dissipated to the extent that total expenditures exceed the minimum necessary to catch the total quota. Total quotas and fish prices which together determine the catch value vary between seasons. After only a few seasons, subjects dissipate almost all potential rents by increasing expenditures to try to increase their shares of the rents. Increases in prices lead to increased rent dissipation; lower prices lead to reduced rent dissipation. Heterogeneity of fishing skill reduces the extent of rent dissipation, as fishing becomes relatively less profitable for less skilled participants. More skilled participants capture significant rents. After gaining experience with a fishery without individual quotas, subjects vote on whether to switch to individual quota (IQ) management. Subjects are more likely to vote for individual quotas the higher their quota allocations. Heterogeneity of fishing skill, by increasing the heterogeneity of catches and the rents captured by skilled fishermen without IQs, reduces the likelihood that IQ allocations based on historical catches will be supported by a majority of fishermen. Implementation of IQs quickly reduces rent dissipation to almost zero.
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  • Knapp, Gunnar. 2006. Rent Dissipation in Limited Entry Fisheries with Aggregate Quoatas: An Experimental Analysis. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, July 11-14, 2006, Portsmouth, UK: Rebuilding Fisheries in an Uncertain Environment. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2006. CD ROM. ISBN 0-9763432-3-1
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  • The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Service, United States Department of Commerce (NOAA Fisheries); United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); The United States Agency for International Development supported Aquaculture Collaborative Research and Support Program (ACRSP).
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