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Resource Rent in Individual Quota Fisheries

Asche, Frank; Bjørndal, Trond; Gordon, Daniel V. - In: Land Economics 85 (2009) 2

dissipation and overcapacity. Individual vessel quota management schemes change the incentives to maximize profit and have the …. In this study, a cost function approach is used to model and measure rent generated and potential rent in a fishery … managed with individual vessel quotas. …

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Estimating Pollution Abatement Costs of Salmon Aquaculture: A Joint Production Approach

Liu, Yajie; Sumaila, U. Rashid - In: Land Economics 86 (2010) 3

Salmon aquaculture generates good output (i.e., salmon) and bad output (e.g., pollution). A joint production function approach is applied to model both outputs simultaneously. Two environmental production technologies are specified, namely, regulated and unregulated technologies. Two production...

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Technological Change and Managerial Ability: Evidence from a Malaysian Artisanal Fishery

Gilbert, Ben; Yeo, Bee Hong - In: Land Economics 90 (2014) 2

Technological progress can improve economic development, but its role in the harvest of common resources has received little attention. We study the relationship between skill and the use of electronic and mechanical innovations in the productivity of Malaysian artisanal fishers. Surprisingly,...

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Production Efficiency and Exit in Rights-Based Fisheries

Schnier, Kurt E.; Felthoven, Ronald G. - In: Land Economics 89 (2013) 3

Economic theory predicts that the least-efficient vessels are more likely to exit a fishery following the transition to … results indicate that a vessel’s measure of technical inefficiency is a significant and positive factor in explaining whether … it exits the fishery following the implementation of ITQs. …

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The Implications of Environmental NGO Involvement in Fisheries Management

Aanesen, Margrethe; Armstrong, Claire W. - In: Land Economics 90 (2014) 3

sardine purse seine fishery to calibrate and test the model. …

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Unraveling the Multiple Margins of Rent Generation from Individual Transferable Quotas

Reimer, Matthew N.; Abbott, Joshua K.; Wilen, James E. - In: Land Economics 90 (2014) 3

the Bering Sea crab fishery to decompose the sources of rent generation across both margins. We embed an empirically …

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The Norwegian Winter Herring Fishery: A Story of Technological Progress and Stock Collapse

Gordon, Daniel V.; Hannesson, Rögnvaldur - In: Land Economics 91 (2015) 2

In the 1970s, herring stocks in the Northeast Atlantic were nearly fished to extinction. This collapse is usually attributed to technological advances. We investigate the empirical impact of technological shocks on herring stocks. We show evidence that the power block was the principal factor in...

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Improving Utilization of the Atlantic Sea Scallop Resource: An Analysis of Rotational Management of Fishing Grounds: Comment

Hart, Deborah R. - In: Land Economics 85 (2009) 2

optimization to fishery management are discussed. …

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Adjustment Cost and Supply Response in a Fishery: A Dynamic Revenue Function

Asche, Frank - In: Land Economics 85 (2009) 1

In industries where firms can adjust product mix in response to price changes, the process can be delayed by adjustment costs. An example is fishermen who change fishing grounds to target different species. If adjustment costs are sufficiently large, this may hamper the fishermen’s response so...

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Restoring a Fish Stock: A Dynamic Bankruptcy Problem

Inarra, Elena; Skonhoft, Anders - In: Land Economics 84 (2008) 2

Proportional Rule, based on historical catches, implies that harvesters or vessel groups that have captured more in the past and …

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