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played by market forces. They have created euphoria about the ability of a
regime of vigorous and free international trade in food products to solve
problems of food security. Achieving food security depends crucially on the
level of both physical and economic access to food by the needy. Trade is
therefore only one facilitating factor, and fish composes only a small part of
the food basket. Both enhanced trade and food security depend substantially
on the content, the quantum and the distribution of economic growth within and
across countries. The role of trade and fish in food security must therefore
not be overrated, and when examined in isolation, done so with caution. What
contribution can fishery products make in moving humanity from the reality of
widespread food insecurity to the vision of a world free from hunger? Does
international trade in fishery products, in the manner in which it is
organized today, play a role in alleviating food insecurity directly or
indirectly? If not, under what conditions can it do so in the future? We
need to ponder over these issues.
Kurkul, Patricia A. and Stanley D.H. Wang (1988). "Profitability of the
U.S. Northeast Fisheries, 1976-1986." Draft report, Analytical
Services Branch, Northeast Region, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Gloucester, MA, March, 25 pp.
The methodology used to generate profit data and a discussion of profit
trends are presented. Some important factors are discussed in relation to
profit trends and tentative conclusions are drawn about fleet financial
viability over this time period.
Kuronuma, Yoshihiro and Clement A. Tisdell (1996). Economics of Antarctic
Minke Whale Catches: Sustainability and Welfare Considerations. Marine
Resource Economics, 9(2):141-158.
Clark s bioeconomic model is applied to Antarctic minke whales (AMW),
the backbone of the commercial whaling in 1982 when the International Whaling
Commission (IWC) opted for a ban on whaling commencing 1985/86. The
moratorium appears not to be justified from the point of view of saving AMW
from extinction or for maximizing the net present value of returns to whalers.
Catch quotas before the moratorium are found to be lower than needed for
survival of the species and for sustainability of the harvests and returns.
It seems that the IWC catch quotas and the moratorium were determined not by
conventional bioeconomics, but by other factors such as political pressure
form conservationists who suffered adverse externalities from whaling.
Nevertheless, even taking such externalities into account, the present
moratorium seems not to be Kaldor-Hicks optimal.
Kuruc, Michele (1993). "The Lacey Act." Paper presented at the
Workshop on Enforcement Measures, Organization for Economic Co-
Operation and Development, Directorate for Food, Agriculture, and
Fisheries, Committee for Fisheries, Paris, September 21-22.
The legislative changes made to the Lacey Act during the past 93 years
are chronicled. A survey is conducted of some case law under the Act
involving fish and wildlife. The intent is to show how the Act has protected
endangered species since its passage in 1900.
Kusumastanto, Tridoyo and Curtis M. Jolly (1997). Demand Analysis for Fish
in Indonesian. Applied Economics, 29:95-100.
The purpose of this study was to determine an aggregate demand function
and the factors influencing the demand for fish in Indonesia during the period
1967-88. Using a Box-Cox transformation methodology, the double-log model was
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