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Potential Gains from Cooperation for Vessels and Countries. Marine
Resource Economics, 12(2):145-158.
In this paper, we consider a model in which fishing boats or firms share
the stock of fish in a fishing ground. The catches made by each firm reduce
the stock available for the rest of the firms, which directly affects their
profits. We aim to quantify in a static framework the gain in welfare
obtained by the firms if they decide to cooperate to attain an individually
rational efficient outcome. One of the main results is that both the
incentives for the firms to cooperate and the minimum level of catches which
permits any gain in welfare decrease as real wage increases. On the other
hand, the greater the asymmetry among boats or firms, the more difficult it
will be to reach any cooperative agreement.
Yew, Tai Shzee and Terry Heaps (1996). "Effort Dynamics and Alternative
Management Policies for the Small Pelagic Fisheries of Northwest
Peninsular Malaysia. Marine Resource Economics, 11(2):85-103.
The dynamics of fish stocks are an important consideration in
determining appropriate fishery management policy. Equally crucial are the
dynamics of fishing effort. Both these dynamics have been incorporated in a
simulation model to analyze the bio-socioeconomic impacts of four alternative
limited entry management policies for the multispecies, multigear small
pelagic fishery of northwest Peninsular Malaysia. Fishing effort dynamics are
determined by the difference in profits and opportunity costs. Several
management alternatives are evaluated at equilibrium. Performance variables
such as equilibrium catch, social profits, consumer surplus, social benefits,
direct fishery employment and income of individual crew are used in the
evaluation. The implications for policy makers are discussed.
Yohe, Gary W. (1984). "Regulation Under Uncertainty: An Intuitive
Survey and Application to Fisheries." Marine Resource Economics,
1(2):171-192.
This paper surveys the issues involved in setting or improving
regulatory activity in the presence of uncertainty. It is conducted in a way
that will bring forth the underlying intuitions of the existing literature so
that the various policy options can easily be distinguished on grounds of
efficiency, as well as distributional and international considerations. This
approach not only fits well into a section outlining the need for regulatory
review, but also provides a basis for suggesting the issues involved in
regulation fisheries. Intuition more than modeling aids in initially applying
general analysis to specific areas, and the fisheries example illustrates how
that application can be scientifically accomplished.
Yohe, Gary W. (1991). "The Cost of Not Holding Back the Sea-Economic
Vulnerability." Ocean & Shoreline Management, 15:233-255.
A method for quantifying the economic vulnerability of developed
shoreline to the threat of greenhouse induced sea level rise is described and
applied to Long Beach Island, New Jersey, USA. While the method carefully
accounts for structure, land and beach vulnerability along arbitrary sea level
rise scenarios from tax maps and careful geographical accounting, it does not
produce opportunity cost estimates for abandonment. The data generated here
are, nonetheless, the foundation from which such cost estimates can be
constructed given market and individual reactions to subjective perceptions of
the threat and its timing.
Young, Richard H. (1982). "Strategy for Shrimp By-Catch Utilization."
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