Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing

Starting in the 1960s, considerable opposition to the Canadian and Norwegian harp seal hunt off Newfoundland developed. It was alleged that the seal hunt was unethical and that the seal population had been seriously depleted. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the production function for the se...

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Main Authors: Trond Bjørndal, Jon M. Conrad, Kjell G. Salvanes
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Harp Seal
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3146516
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:uwp:landec:v:69:y:1993:i:2:p:156-167 2023-05-15T16:33:44+02:00 Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing Trond Bjørndal Jon M. Conrad Kjell G. Salvanes http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3146516 unknown http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3146516 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:33:07Z Starting in the 1960s, considerable opposition to the Canadian and Norwegian harp seal hunt off Newfoundland developed. It was alleged that the seal hunt was unethical and that the seal population had been seriously depleted. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the production function for the seal hunt based on data for the Norwegian seal hunt. Particular attention is paid to the question whether free entry to the fishery will cause overexploitation. This depends critically on the characteristics of the production function, in particular the extent to which harvesting costs depend on stock size. Article in Journal/Newspaper Harp Seal Newfoundland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
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description Starting in the 1960s, considerable opposition to the Canadian and Norwegian harp seal hunt off Newfoundland developed. It was alleged that the seal hunt was unethical and that the seal population had been seriously depleted. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the production function for the seal hunt based on data for the Norwegian seal hunt. Particular attention is paid to the question whether free entry to the fishery will cause overexploitation. This depends critically on the characteristics of the production function, in particular the extent to which harvesting costs depend on stock size.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Trond Bjørndal
Jon M. Conrad
Kjell G. Salvanes
spellingShingle Trond Bjørndal
Jon M. Conrad
Kjell G. Salvanes
Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
author_facet Trond Bjørndal
Jon M. Conrad
Kjell G. Salvanes
author_sort Trond Bjørndal
title Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
title_short Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
title_full Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
title_fullStr Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
title_full_unstemmed Stock Size, Harvesting Costs, and the Potential for Extinction: The Case of Sealing
title_sort stock size, harvesting costs, and the potential for extinction: the case of sealing
url http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3146516
genre Harp Seal
Newfoundland
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Newfoundland
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