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Local self-governance based on institutions for collective action can help overcome social dilemmas in the management of complex Common Pool Resources, such as fish. A common path towards local self-governance is decentralization, and within this context, a transfer of property rights from...
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Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to … fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other … the colonial land policy and the law governing the fisheries. In so doing, Harris rewrites the history of colonial …
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The Aboriginal peoples of Canada stand in a different legal relationship to the fisheries than non-Aboriginal Canadians …. They do so by virtue of a long history with the fisheries that precedes non-Aboriginal settlement in North America, and …
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Fisheries the world over are poorly managed and under stress. Yet, proper fishery management can both conserve … fisheries and maintain their value as a resource for human consumption. One approach long recommended by economists has been the … allocation or recognition of property rights in fisheries. The ability of such methods to enhance economic efficiency is no …
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Fishing has been one of the oldest economic activities of human race. It comes next only to agriculture. Fish and other sea food constitute an enchantingly of a wholesome food provision. Millions of people all over the world have been profitably engaged in fishing and fish trading over the...
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Stochastic production frontier models are used extensively in the agricultural and resource economics literature to estimate production functions and technical efficiency, as well as to guide policy. Traditionally these models assume that each agent's production can be specified as a...
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The implementation of the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998 which governs fisheries management in South Africa is … overlooked in the fishing rights allocation process. The Policy for the Small-Scale Fisheries Sector in South Africa aims to … monumental task, one which South Africa has arguably failed to achieve to date. In particular, as far the equity objective is …
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In this paper, the estimate of the productive efficiency for some Italian fleet segments is proposed. The estimate is based on a Stochastic Frontier Production (SFP) function and a Data Envelopment Analysis frontier (DEA) using micro data of fishing vessels. The essential random nature of the...
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