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Charles, Anthony T. and Gordon R. Munro (1985). "Irreversible
Investment and Optimal Fisheries Management: A Stochastic
Analysis." Marine Resource Economics, 1(3):247-264.
In recent years, attention has been devoted to fishery management
problems that arise because capital embodied in fishing fleets is often
nonmalleable, having few if any alternative uses. This problem of
irreversible investment was analyzed by Clark et al. (1979), using a
deterministic model. In reality, however, most investment decisions must be
made within an uncertain environment. This paper describes recent efforts to
account for uncertainty in analyzing the problem of optimal fishery
investment, where the uncertainty is caused by stochastic variability in the
resource stock from year to year.
Charles, Anthony T. and William J. Reed (1985). "A Bioeconomic Analysis
of Sequential Fisheries: Competition, Coexistence, and Optimal
Harvest Allocation Between Inshore and Offshore Fleets." Can J.
Fish. Aquat. Sci., 42:952-962.
A bioeconomic model is developed to determine optimal harvest allocation
between offshore and inshore fleets exploiting a single fish stock in
sequential fisheries. The socially optimal policy for maximizing total
discounted rent is determined in terms of optimal escapement levels in each
fishery. Whether exclusion or coexistence of the two fleets occurs under open
access and under optimal management is found to depend primarily on
inshore/offshore price and cost ratios, together with biological parameters
related to the age structure of the fish stock. We discuss how fishery
regulations, such as separate landings taxes imposed on each fleet, can be
used to jointly optimize open-access exploitation in sequential fisheries.
Charles, Anthony T., Theophilus R. Brainerd, Alicia Bermudez M.,
Herminigildo M. Montalvo, and Robert S. Pomeroy (1994). Fisheries
Socioeconomics in the Developing World, Regional Assessments and
an Annotated Bibliography. International Development Research
Centre, P.O. Box 8500, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1G 3H9, March, 163 pp.
In fisheries of the developing world, where social and economic concerns
often dominate, intelligent policy making requires an adequate understanding
of both "economic" and "human" factors -- the economic structure and dynamics
of the fishery system, on the one hand, and the role of social, cultural,
institutional and political aspects on the other. Interdisciplinary linkages
between these two elements form the essence of fishery socioeconomics, that
addresses a wide range of topics: analyses of management and developmental
goals, income distribution, social accounting, fishery ownership and access,
fisher dynamics and labor markets, the socioeconomic structure of fishing
communities, economic aspects of gender differences, the nature of fishery
decision making, and so on.
Despite its recognized practical importance, the fishery socioeconomic
literature is widely dispersed and often inaccessible. This report presents
the results of an international effort to compile this literature and to
assess the "state of the art" in socioeconomic research on developing
fisheries and aquaculture. The report consists of two key elements: (1) a
series of regionally based assessments of fishery socioeconomics research, for
each of Africa, Latin America and Asia/Pacific, and (2) an extensive annotated
bibliography (on diskette) containing over 100 references from across the
developing world.
Charles River Associates (1983). "Modeling the Short-Run Behavior of
the New England Groundfish Industry." Final report prepared for
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