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This paper is intended to revisit the question of rational fisheries exploitation raised by Gordon in his celebrated 1954 article in the Journal of Political Economy, that has served as the starting point for the development of the fisheries economics sub-discipline.
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The fisheries resources within the EEZs of countries in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is not being exploited at their maximum sustainable yield. Fisheries development has however been hampered by a history of these states, little or no sectoral development planning. If member...
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The fisheries sector in the Philippines provides a significant contribution to the na-tional economy in terms of income, foreign exchange and employment. In 2000, total fish production was estimated at 2.94 million t, 84% of which was derived from marine capture fisheries. The export of fish and...
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If one were to examine the institutional configurations under which real world fisheries operate, one would find virtually no fisheries operating under either pure open access or rent maximizing conditions. Instead, most of the world's most important fisheries operate under common property,...
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This is a case study of the institutional changes occurring since the late 1990s at the Chilean Austral Hake (Merluccius Australis) artisanal fishery. This high-value exporting fishery, specialized in selling fresh-chilled products, represents a pioneering case of self-government developments...
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Some of the social and cultural aspects of marine fishing communities, as they emerge in the course of the pursuit for food and livelihood, are the subjects of this paper. The focus is on the marine fishery of Kerala State, India and attempts to show how these dimensions evolved in the context...
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This paper deals with the sustainable management of a renewable resource based on individual and transferable quotas (ITQs). The aim of that paper is to determine the conditions under which a regulating agency can achieve both ecological and economic objectives when agents are heterogenous and...
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