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"Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water" achievable. Fisheries and aquaculture sectors alone provide employment for and … substantial costs across the fisheries value chain. A key challenge is to mobilize the required financial resources to enable this … from the analysis indicated that an institutional design that has a specific focus on the fisheries sector, promoting …
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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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User rights in fisheries refer to the rights of fishers to harvest from fish resources. In terms of exclusivity … of the strength of user rights is needed. We refer to strong and weak user rights, and by strong user rights in fisheries … explain how this approach can be applied to analyze and score the quality of actual user rights in fisheries. This we do first …
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The study provides empirical evidence that a targeted policy can backfire because information signals affect non-targeted units. Specifically, the analysis of the policy aimed at regulating the harvesting of juvenile fish in Peru's Anchovy Fishery, by temporarily closing areas with high juvenile...
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