annotated bibliography of fisheries economics literature - Office of ...

analysis is in terms of a very simple biological model and the discussion is
biased towards issues which are discussed most frequently in public forum,
often in ways that ignore simple economic principles.
Anderson, Lee G. (1994). What is Controlled or Limited Access? In Karyn L.
Gimbel (ed.) Limiting Access to Marine Fisheries: Keeping the Focus on
Conservation, Center for Marine Conservation and the World Wildlife
Fund, Washington, D.C.
The paper will compare and contrast open access with controlled access
modes of fisheries regulation. While some of the differences can be quite
subtle, for purposes of discussion they can be distinguished as follows. The
former controls the activities of participants but does not explicitly control
their number. The latter controls the number of participants or in some cases
the number of fishing units (i.e., boats, traps, or the amount of tonnage). A
controlled access program may also control the activities of the restricted
number of participants.
It will be demonstrated that regulations used under open access are
often biologically ineffective in the long run due to technological innovation
and industry growth. In addition, they can lead to economic inefficiencies in
harvest and processing. A prime motivation for the development of controlled
access regulations was to correct for these two potential problems. Depending
upon how they are formulated and upon the nature of the particular fishery to
be managed, controlled access regulations can be successful in this regard.
One way of comparing open access and controlled access management is to
see how each of them can address important issues of different fisheries.
Controlling discards, bycatch, mortality in nursery areas, and maintaining
product quality and industry viability are just a few of the many problems
that must be addressed. It is frequently the case that potential management
tools are dismissed because of a perceived weakness in addressing one of these
issues. Since there is no perfect management tool, the important question in
comparing open access to controlled access management techniques is not which
one has weaknesses, but which one can be adopted, implemented and enforced
such that the stated management objectives can be most nearly achieved.
Anderson, Lee G. (1995). "A Commentary on the Views of Environmental
Groups on Access Control in Fisheries." Ocean and Coastal
Management, 28(1-3):165-188.
This paper assesses the views of various environmental groups on access
control in fisheries, as stated in documents prepared by these groups. The
views range from outright opposition to tentative promotion. Differing views
on the definition of conservation, the appropriate make-up of the fishing
industry and the likely make-up with and without access control, and the
appropriate nature of property rights for fisheries are highlighted. An
important aspect of the last issue is the concern over potential takings
problems under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when management is
imposed in rights-based fisheries regimes.
Anderson, Lee G. (1997). Open Access Fisheries Utilization with an
Endogenous Regulatory Structure: An Expanded Analysis. Draft report,
College of Marine Studies and Department of Economics, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE, 15 pp.
Homans and Wilen (1997) develop a model of a commercial fishery in which
management decisions are endogenously determined. This study expands on this
approach by assuming that both entry and exit of fishing vessels can occur
using the model proposed by Smith (1969) in which a disaggregated model of
independent vessel behavior is employed. In addition, the nature of the
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