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Recovering from overexploitation: the European fisheries of the North Sea
In the last two decades, the fisheries of the North Sea have experienced substantial declines in the population of a number of commercially harvested species. The fisheries have also experienced the development of considerable overcapacity as a result of ineffective management and subsidies. Management of the fishery is complicated by the existence not only of multiple species and gears, but also ...
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Entrepreneurial activity of contemporary Ainu: an explanatory study
This paper reports the entrepreneurship of the indigenous Ainu people in Japan. Our explanatory study shows that the Ainu entrepreneurs, who are the traditional hunting people, engage still mainly in the fishery industry. Operating size of the fishing boat fishery and the fishery of cultivation has an increasing trend. Household's average income is higher for the fishing village residents than ...
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All aboard: power, participation and governance in the North Sea regional advisory council
This paper explores and reveals some hitherto concealed powers relations in the European Union's new political-economic governance procedures. It does this through an empirical investigation of the fisheries stakeholder forum, the North Sea Regional Advisory Council. It shows that although governance arrangements are now designed to be more inclusive than they were before the CFP (Common ...
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Global marine fisheries resources: status and prospects
This paper discusses the current status of the world's fisheries and their prospects for the future, from the perspective of the economics discipline. We focus on governance institutions within which fisheries are conducted, discussing their evolution during the post WW II period with particular emphasis on the jurisdiction extension codified by the Law of the Sea Convention in 1982. We discuss ...
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Challenges and opportunities for fisheries managers in developing countries: a case for economic eclecticism
Fisheries managers and advisors in developing countries face challenges that may be difficult to overcome, because they use doctrines, principles and models of management and economics that do not adequately explain the problems that need to be solved. This may perpetuate non-sustainable policies, because broader issues important to fisheries sustainability are not accounted for more eclectic ...
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From shouting matches to productive dialogue – establishing stakeholder participation in Polish fisheries governance
Environmental governance is increasingly turning away from classic top-down hierarchical governance regimes and experimenting with more collaborative forms of governance, e.g., analytic-deliberative participation of resource users. In this paper, we examine the role of the Polish Baltic Sea Fisheries Roundtable as a multi-stakeholder platform in Polish Baltic Sea fisheries governance. The ...
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The genesis of the New Zealand Parliament's Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act, 1992
Economic expansion and globalisation are contributing to greater appropriation of marine ecosystems. Conflicts over access to fisheries resources nevertheless date back many centuries in most parts of the world, and - as with land resources - are closely tied to colonial histories, struggles for self-determination by indigenous peoples, and changing market conditions. This paper gives a detailed ...
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Are fisheries going from bad to worse? The case of the Northeast Arctic cod
The Northeast Arctic cod is one of the few fish stocks with a long time series of landings, stock size, recruitment and rate of exploitation. This paper discusses how this stock and the catches it supports have developed since 1900. Both catches and the stock increased from 1900 until after the Second World War. After the war the stock declined and so did the catches from the late 1950s. A rising ...
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Valuation and Management of Fishing Resources Under Price Uncertainty
The traditional expected-net-present-value methods cannot properly capture the management flexibility and strategic value aspects of a fishery, and may understate its value. Instead, this paper develops a Real Options model to conceptualize and evaluate fishery exploitation flexibility. Specifically, general models to value the opportunity to either exploit or invest in a fishery are presented. ...
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The Precautionary Approach at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: the Southern Bluefin Tuna cases
The Southern Bluefin Tuna cases offer a rare judicial pronouncement on the application of the Precautionary Principle in marine conservation. Specifically, the 1999 application for provisional measures to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), initiated by Australia and New Zealand to limit a unilateral Japanese experimental fishing programme, yielded reasoned judicial ...
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Fisheries management in a sea of uncertainty: the role and responsibility of scientists in attaining a precautionary approach
On the political level, there is now an agreement that the fish stocks in the North Sea should be managed in accordance with the precautionary principle. The goal of this paper is to show that fisheries scientists will have to adapt to the new requirements represented by this principle, first and foremost by adjusting the model of decision-making in a way that facilitates communication of the ...
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Overfishing in the Gulf of Thailand: policy challenges and bioeconomic analysis
This paper estimates maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield from Schaefer and Fox surplus production bioeconomic models to find evidence of biological and economic overfishing, and their consequences in Gulf of Thailand demersal fisheries. The paper examines alternative policy instruments to reduce overfishing. The discussion emphasizes strengthening fishery management for ...
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Communities, knowledge and fisheries of the future
The 'human dimension' in fisheries management has historically been incorporated via a specific economic understanding of fisheries wedded to a single-species approach. Meeting the challenge of fisheries, however, will require a broadening of fisheries science towards an ecosystems-based approach. There is also the need for a parallel shift in social science understandings of fishing towards ...
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Efficiency and sustainability implications of artisanal fisheries activities: evidence from a developing country
Fisheries activities have an integral role to play in the livelihoods and economies of the Pacific island countries. However, the 'race to fish' behaviour assisted by the nature of property rights could lead to unsustainable resource extraction practices. In this paper, primary data on Fiji's artisanal fishermen and their fishing operation is used to examine their technical efficiency. Results ...
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Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) applications in fishery management
This paper provides an up-to-date review of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) applications in fishery management since the last review conducted by Mardle and Pascoe in 1999. The review will primarily draw on the published literature in the English language. This review will also include the author's experience in developing MCDM models to assist policy decision making in fishery ...
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The status of USA's commercial fisheries and management and crystal-balling the future
Despite the enormity of the commercial fishing industry of the USA, the structure of the industry and various interactions are not known on a national basis. The US public wants seafood, but current domestic production capabilities appear to be inadequate to support the growing demand for seafood. Imports, particularly aquacultured products, are increasing and expected to further increase in the ...
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Book Review: Economics for Fisheries Management
Economics for Fisheries Management, by R. Quentin Grafton, James Kirkley, Tom Kompas and Dale Squires. Ashgate, 2006. 161pp. ISBN 0-7546-3249-0Keywords: book ...
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When the traditional meets the modern: the sustainability of the artisanal fishing in Guanabara Bay, Brazil
The industrial development that has contributed to economic prosperity and advancement of standard of living has also brought new risks to people's every day lives and to the environment. This fact has been evident in the multiple uses of environmentally sensitive ecosystems, often resulting in conflicts among the users. This trend is especially apparent in countries like Brazil, where the issues ...
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Fisheries bioeconomics: why is it so widely misunderstood?
Many fisheries management systems, even when based on apparently sound science, have failed to prevent severe overfishing. And even when successful in this sense, such systems have frequently resulted in a large degree of excess fishing capacity. The reason for these failures can often be found in a lack of consideration of the economic incentives affecting fishermen. Specifically, when forced to ...
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The effects of surface water abstraction for rice irrigation on floodplain fish production in Bangladesh
Abstraction of surface water for irrigation poses a serious threat to the sustainability of floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh. Previous fisheries research has accorded a central role to dry-season (Rabi) water maintenance in safeguarding the health of the fishery, but rice irrigation water abstraction dries up water bodies at a rapid rate. Having reviewed various aspects of this water ...
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