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TFP of the fisheries sector and fishery firms in 28 coastal provinces of Vietnam. The paper evaluated the effects of … significantly affect the fisheries sector's productivity. At the macro level, the more transparent the environment is, the higher … firm size is positively correlated with the TFP in the fisheries sector. The larger the size of the firm, the higher the …
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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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In this paper, we identify the main fishing grounds and track the response of fishing vessels' activity to tropical cyclones (TCs) in the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone during 2012. We use satellite imagery from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to locate fishing vessels...
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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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fisheries resources and other factors, the performance of African countries in aquaculture cannot be considered only by absolute …
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We present a continuous, nonlinear, stochastic and dynamic model for capital investment in the exploitation of a renewable resource. Both the resource stock and capital stock are treated as state variables. The resource owner controls fishing effort and the investment rate in an optimal way....
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In standard models of spatial harvesting, the resource is distributed over the complete domain and the agent is able to control the harvesting activity everywhere all the time. In some cases though, it is more realistic to assume that the resource is located at a single point in space and that...
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-entry fishery. Because exit from limited-entry fisheries may be irreversible, the fisherman has an incentive to maintain the right … fleets, one of the most pressing fisheries management issues in limited-entry (and other) fisheries around the world. To …
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