A comprehensive bycatch market: investigating pricing mechanisms for ecosystem accountability
Master's Project (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 This report takes an ecosystem approach to managing targeted and non-targeted species in the Bering Sea Aleutian Island commercial fisheries. The current regulatory environment sets biological harvest limits across fish stock's e...
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ftunivalaska:oai:scholarworks.alaska.edu:11122/8855 2023-05-15T13:14:42+02:00 A comprehensive bycatch market: investigating pricing mechanisms for ecosystem accountability O'Brien, Erik Little, Joseph Greenberg, Joshua Goering, Greg 2015-05 http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8855 en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8855 Applied Resource Economics Bycatches (Fisheries) Prices Alaska Aleutian Islands Bering Sea Economic aspects Master's Project ms 2015 ftunivalaska 2023-02-23T21:37:08Z Master's Project (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 This report takes an ecosystem approach to managing targeted and non-targeted species in the Bering Sea Aleutian Island commercial fisheries. The current regulatory environment sets biological harvest limits across fish stock's entire range, although the individual components of managing fisheries within a stock may lead to economic inefficiencies and difficulties in accounting for social costs due to blunt incentives. The research presented here outlines a model for scenario analysis and pricing mechanisms at each level of harvest across a species range. Due to the modeled indifference of harvesting in targeted or non-targeted fisheries, designations are made for degrees of ownership rights and monetary transfers to balance these rights in the presence of non-target bycatch. This report argues that efficiency gains can be made by managing behavior through pricing incentives at the margin. Other/Unknown Material Aleutian Island Bering Sea Alaska Aleutian Islands University of Alaska: ScholarWorks@UA Bering Sea Fairbanks |
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Master's Project (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 This report takes an ecosystem approach to managing targeted and non-targeted species in the Bering Sea Aleutian Island commercial fisheries. The current regulatory environment sets biological harvest limits across fish stock's entire range, although the individual components of managing fisheries within a stock may lead to economic inefficiencies and difficulties in accounting for social costs due to blunt incentives. The research presented here outlines a model for scenario analysis and pricing mechanisms at each level of harvest across a species range. Due to the modeled indifference of harvesting in targeted or non-targeted fisheries, designations are made for degrees of ownership rights and monetary transfers to balance these rights in the presence of non-target bycatch. This report argues that efficiency gains can be made by managing behavior through pricing incentives at the margin. |
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A comprehensive bycatch market: investigating pricing mechanisms for ecosystem accountability |
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A comprehensive bycatch market: investigating pricing mechanisms for ecosystem accountability |
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