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Changing background risk and risk-taking : evidence from the field

Kleemann, Linda; Riekhof, Marie-Catherine - 2018 - This version: October 2018

Decisions involving risk are usually taken in the presence of other insurable or non-insurable risks, the latter type called background risk. We examine how changing background risk influences risk-taking based on panel data with monthly observations from Senegalese fishermen. Fishing income is...

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Determinants of TFP in the fisheries sector of 28 coastal provinces in Vietnam

Nguyen Cao Duc; Ha Thi Thu Thuy; Phuong, Pham Thi Thu; … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 2, pp. 435-444

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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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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The impact of tropical cyclones on fishing activities in the Philippines

Noy, Ilan; Lacheheb, Miloud; Pundit, Madhavi - 2023

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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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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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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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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Real Options Analysis of Fishing Fleet Dynamics: A Test

Bosetti, Valentina; Tomberlin, David - 2004

-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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A Coalition Game of the Baltic Sea Cod Fishery

Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk - 2004

The paper sets up a discrete-time, deterministic, coalition game model among the major agents exploiting the cod stock in Baltic Sea. The characteristic func-tion is constructed and the Shapley value and the nucleolus are used as one-point solution concepts. The paper identifies the problem with...

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