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An analysis of the dependence of the Spanish fisheries industry on the financial instrument for fisheries guidance
Hernandez-Mora, José Antonio Vidal; Renart, Marcos Antón - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 4 (2009) 2, pp. 34-64
. The Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) has been the tool deployed by the European authorities to increase …Fisheries are an important economic sector in the EU subject to an important restructuring in the most recent years … Spanish fisheries firms, determining their indebtedness, solvency, and profitability. We also analyse if those firms included …
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Prospects for aquaculture development in Africa : a review of past performance to assess future potential
Hinrichsen, Etienne; Walakira, John K.; Langi, Sandra; … - 2022
fisheries resources and other factors, the performance of African countries in aquaculture cannot be considered only by absolute …
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Approaches to strengthening fisheries financing and institutional mechanisms: a cross-country comparison of Cambodia, India, and Indonesia
Tirumala, Raghu Dharmapuri; Tiwari, Piyush - 2021
"Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water" achievable. Fisheries and aquaculture sectors alone provide employment for and … substantial costs across the fisheries value chain. A key challenge is to mobilize the required financial resources to enable this … from the analysis indicated that an institutional design that has a specific focus on the fisheries sector, promoting …
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Nautical patrol and illegal fishing practices
Kastoryano, Stephen; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2022
We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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Evolution of user rights quality in the Icelandic fisheries
Birgir Þór Runólfsson - 2023
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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A comment on "Information and spillovers from targeting policy in Peru's anchoveta fishery"
Bernardi, Marta; Zeller, Sarah; Rotich, Rebecca - 2024
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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Optimal fishery with coastal catch
Uecker, Hannes; Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 2016
In many spatial resource models it is assumed that the agent is able to determine the harvesting activity over the complete spatial domain. However, agents frequently have only access to a resource at particular locations at which the moving biomass, such as fish or game, may be caught or...
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Individual Vessel Quotas in Peru : Stopping the Race for Anchovies
Tveteras, Sigbjorn - 2011
In January 2009 a new management regime of individual vessel quotas (IVQs) was put in force in the world's largest fishery, the Peruvian anchovy fishery. Until 2009, the fishery was managed by a regulated open access system with clear symptoms of the race for fish. We argue that the new regime...
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Spatial structure effects on fisheries management for Lake Victoria's Nile Perch
Gomez, Santiago - 2022
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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Multiple Objectives and Perceptions of Optimal Management : The Danish Industrial Fishery in the North Sea
Kjærsgaard, Jens - 2010
Fisheries management involves many stakeholders with different opinions about how the fishery should be optimally …. Managers, in this case the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, are provided with a management tool that shows …
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