The marine environment provides, directly or indirectly, a wide range of benefits on humans that are not just economic but also on health and well-being. All these privileges are returned in the form of pollution. Human actions are destroying the marine living environment and with this the human...

Shrimp sector in Ecuador is nowadays one of the fastest-growing non-oil sectors towards the international market. In despite of this growth, to our knowledge most of the little producers of shrimps in Ecuador take important operational decisions based upon empirical knowledge, without...

This research analyzes the potential effects that a redistributive fishing quota policy could have on the profits and employment of the artisanal fisher organizations. We use a multi-objective programming model and apply it to the common sardine and anchovies fisheries in the Biobío Region for...

This paper examines estimations of technical catch efficiency for a sample of 204 industrial vessels operating at the pelagic grounds of Southern-Central Chile during the 1985-95 period. We consider a Translog stochastic frontier model à-la Battese-Coelli

[EN] The irreversibility of the investment expenditures in a fishery and the high degree of uncertainty attaching to the price of the fishing resources make the evaluation of investment opportunity in a fishery particularly difficult. The net-present-value proposes the following rule: "Invest in...

[EN] The valuation of development opportunity of a fishery is made particularly difficult by the high degree of uncertainty attaching to the price of the fishing resource. The net-present-value and other discounted cash-flows cannot properly capture the management s flexibility, thus they may...

The management by means of taxes of a fishery in which the fishing technology of the fleets has different effects on resource is analysed in this paper. This effect can be included in the natural growth of the marine resource function itself. The results show that the tax equilibrium level...

Chimbote es uno de los principales puertos pesqueros del Perú y alberga una parte importante de las fábricas de harina de pescado del país. Sin embargo, luego de más de cincuenta años de existencia, este puerto está lejos de haberse convertido en un cluster dinámico formado por negocios...

La explotación de recursos de uso común constituye la única fuente de ingresos de una porción significativa de hogares en países en desarrollo. El objetivo de este documento es mostrar empíricamente que cuando un recurso de uso común escasea, esto ocasiona un crecimiento demográfico tal...

Este trabajo describe y analiza el problema de riesgo moral causado por la asimetría de información que existe entre la autoridad ambiental y los productores de fauna (zoocriaderos) que posiblemente incurren en explotación y comercialización ilícita. Usando un modelo principal-agente, se...