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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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Lake Victoria, globally the second-largest freshwater Lake by surface area, houses an artisanal Nile Perch Fishery that directly involves around 200K people. While the 10 whole Lake surface is potentially available to fishing activities, the fishing vessels' operational and technical...
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. Without climate change, most Asian fisheries stand to gain substantially from reforms. Optimizing fishery management could … fisheries, I find that under climate change large benefits from fishery management reform are maintained, though these benefits … fisheries will benefit substantially from the transition to catch shares or other economically rational fishery management …
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This paper investigates whether rights-based management in fisheries ends the “race to fish.” The staggered … introductions of catch shares in the Alaska pollock and Pacific hake fisheries — neighboring regional fisheries that are the largest …
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This note analyzes in a fishery management problem the effects of relaxing one of the usual assumptions in the literature of dynamic games. Specifically, the assumption that players restrict to strategies that stabilize the system. Previous works in the literature have shown that feedback Nash...
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Fisheries in Sénégal are comprised of two sub-sectors: the artisanal sub-sector and the industrial sub-sector. While … depletion of the stock created a sense of urgency and a willingness to reform the way fisheries are managed to prevent an … irreversible damage. This paper provides a political economy and historical perspective to analyse the fisheries reforms undertaken …
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In this paper, we consider a market where potential firms, which are allowed to be asymmetric, can freely enter and exit, and the total output would be socially excessive without any regulation. The effects of two alternative regulatory policies in the market: the individually transferable quota...
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This paper measures the extent of illegal and unreported fishing during the annual Chinese fishing ban and estimates compliance with the ban. We compare compliance estimates using official vessel broadcast positions with a new and more robust measure of fishing activity based on nighttime...
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This paper establishes that a targeted policy backfires because it reveals information about non-targeted units. In the world's largest fishery, the regulator attempts to reduce the harvesting of juvenile fish by temporarily closing areas where the share of juvenile catch is high. By combining...
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