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The Economic Value of Rebuilding Fisheries

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  • Christopher Costello

    (University of California)

  • Brian P. Kinlan

    (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

  • Sarah E. Lester

    (University of California)

  • Steven D. Gaines

    (University of California)

Abstract
The global demand for protein from seafood – whether wild, caught or cultured, whether for direct consumption or as feed for livestock – is high and projected to continue growing. However, the ocean’s ability to meet this demand is uncertain due to either mismanagement or, in some cases, lack of management of marine fish stocks. Efforts to rebuild and recover the world’s fisheries will benefit from an improved understanding of the long-term economic benefits of recovering collapsed stocks, the trajectory and duration of different rebuilding approaches, variation in the value and timing of recovery for fisheries with different economic, biological, and regulatory characteristics, including identifying which fisheries are likely to benefit most from recovery, and the benefits of avoiding collapse in the first place. These questions are addressed using a dynamic bioeconomic optimisation model that explicitly accounts for economics, management, and ecology of size-structured exploited fish populations. Within this model framework, different management options (effort controls on small-, medium-, and large-sized fish) including management that optimises economic returns over a specified planning horizon are simulated and the consequences compared. The results show considerable economic gains from rebuilding fisheries, with magnitudes varying across fisheries.

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  • Christopher Costello & Brian P. Kinlan & Sarah E. Lester & Steven D. Gaines, 2012. "The Economic Value of Rebuilding Fisheries," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 55, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:55-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k9bfqnmptd2-en
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    1. Yamazaki, Satoshi & Jennings, Sarah & Quentin Grafton, R. & Kompas, Tom, 2015. "Are marine reserves and harvest control rules substitutes or complements for rebuilding fisheries?," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 1-18.
    2. Gordon Munro & U. Sumaila, 2015. "On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 61(1), pages 1-17, May.
    3. Tim Cashion & Santiago de la Puente & Dyhia Belhabib & Daniel Pauly & Dirk Zeller & U Rashid Sumaila, 2018. "Establishing company level fishing revenue and profit losses from fisheries: A bottom-up approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-20, November.

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