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Two of the primary issues of the next Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform are maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and … transferable fishing concessions (TFCs). The European Commission set the goal of achieving MSY for all European fisheries by 2015 …
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We studied the optimal age- and season-specific sustainable harvesting policy for a fish population. We assumed that body weight, reproduction rate, and natural mortality of a fish vary with age. By assuming completely age- and season-specific harvesting, we can obtain a new, simple criterion...
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This paper presents a critique of the neoclassical view of the optimal use of renewable resources and offers an alternative view based on the method of classical thermodynamics. The presentation is forwarded via the issue of harvesting to extinction. Based on simple models, the traditional...
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This article presents the results obtained by the implementation of the Schaefer-Clark’s bioeconomical model in the Lake of Patzcuaro, State of Michoacan. Using official sources and a survey applied to 58 fishermen in 20 communities surrounding the lake, it was estimated the capture volume,...
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One of the main goals stated in the proposals for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform is achieving maximum … sustainable yield (MSY) for all European fisheries by 2015. In this paper, we consider the mechanism design problem for allocation …
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Two of the primary issues of the next Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform are maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and … employment. Besides, the European Commission set the goal of achieving MSY for all European fisheries by 2015. The interrelation …
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"Access to inshore fisheries in Sierra Leone and their management are discussed in order to provide a basis for … improving fisheries management."On the basis of the property rights framework, the state is the de jure owner of the inshore … fisheries resources, exploited by the artisanal fishers as authorized users. Fishers perceive stocks as a free good and in …
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"The common property ocean fishery is often cited as an example of economic inefficiency in production. The usual recommendation is to restrict entry of fishermen so that 'incomes' of those remaining are improved. Such logic would seem to indicate that the economic theory of common property...
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"Observation and measurement of the ocean's ecosystems is difficult and costly. It makes verification of our theories difficult and forces us to engage in collective action based upon often very imperfect concepts of the dynamics of the system. Once we establish the institutions of collective...
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