Employment and remuneration effects of IFQs in the bering Sea/Aleutian islands crab fisheries

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-354

  Abbott, Joshua K ^a   Garber Yonts, Brian ^b   Wilen, James E ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Crab; Crew; IFQ; Rationalization; Remuneration

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 79551509355     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5950/0738-1360-25.4.333     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (38)

1. Allen, D., and D. Lueck. 1992. Contract Choice in Modern Agriculture - Cash Rent Versus Cropshare. Journal of Law and Economics 35:397-426.
2. -. 1995. Risk Preferences and the Economics of Contracts. American Economic Review 85(2):447-51.
3. Binkley, M. 1989. Nova Scotian Offshore Groundfish Fishermen-Effects of the Enterprise Allocation and the Drive for Quality. Marine Policy 13(3):274-84.
4. Boyce, J.R. 2004. Instrument Choice in a Fishery. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47(1): 183-206.
5. Branch, T.A. 2009. How Do Individual Transferable Quotas Affect Marine Ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries 10(1):39-57.
6. Casey K. 1997. Assessing the Impacts of Individual Transferable Quotas in the North Pacific Halibut Fishery. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Agricultural and Resource Econ., University of California, Davis.
7. Casey, K.E., C. Dewees, B. Turns, and J. Wilen. 1995. The Effects of Individual Vessel Quotas on the British Columbia Halibut Fishery. Marine Resource Economics 10(3):211-30.
8. Christy, F.T. 1993. Fishermen Quotas: a Tentative Suggestion for Domestic Management. Law of the Sea Institute. Occasional paper no. 19, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
9. Chu, C. 2009. Thirty Years Later: the Global Growth of ITQs and Their Influence on Stock Status in Marine Fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 10(2):217-30.
10. Copes, P. 1997. Social Impacts of Fisheries Management Regimes Based on Individual Quotas. Social Implications of Quota Systems in Fisheries, G. Palsson and G. Petursdottir, eds., pp. 19-42. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Council of Ministers.
11. Costello, C., S.D. Gaines, and J. Lynham. 2008. Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse? Science 321 (5896): 1678-81.
12. Degnbol, P., H. Gislasson, S. Hanna, S. Jentoft, J. Neilson, S. Sverdrup-Jensen, and D. Wilson. 2006. Painting the Floor With a Hammer: Technical Fixes in Fisheries Management. Marine Policy 30(5):534-43.
13. Demeza, D., and J.R. Gould. 1987. Free Access Versus Private Property in a Resource - Income Distributions Compared. Journal of Political Economy 95(6): 1317-25.
14. Eswaran, M., and A. Kotwal. 1985. A Theory of Contractual Structure in Agriculture. American Economic Review 75(3):352-67.
15. Ginter, J.J.C. 1996. The Alaska Community Development Quota Fisheries Management Program. Ocean and Coastal Management 28(1-3):147-63.
16. Grafton, R.Q., R. Arnason, T. Bjørndal, D. Campbell, H. Campbell, C. Clark, R. Connor, D. Dupont, R. Hannesson, R. Hilborn, J. Kirkley, T. Kompas, D. Lane, G. Munro, S. Pascoe, D. Squires, S. Steinshamn, B. Tunis, and Q. Weninger 2006. Incentive-based Approaches to Sustainable Fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(3):699-710.
17. Guyader, O., and O. Thebaud. 2001. Distributional Issues in the Operation of Rightsbased Fisheries Management Systems. Marine Policy 25(2): 103-12.
18. Hilborn, R.J., M. Orensanz, and A.M. Parma. 2005. Institutions, Incentives and the Future of Fisheries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 1453:47-57.
19. Homans, F.R., and J. Wilen. 2005. Markets and Rent Dissipation in Regulated Open Access. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49(2):381-404.
20. Levine, H.B. 1994. Maori Fishing Rights: Ideological Developments and Practical Impacts. MAST/Maritime Anthropological Studies 2(1):21-33.
21. Matulich, S.C. 2008. Did Processing Quota Damage Alaskan Red King Crab Harvesters? Empirical Evidence. Marine Resource Economics 23(3):253-71.
22. -. 2009. The Value of Individual Processing Quota in the Alaskan Red King Crab Fishery: A Preliminary Analysis. Marine Resource Economics 24(2): 187-93.
23. Matulich, S.C., R.C. Mittelhammer, and C. Reberte. 1996. Toward a More Complete Model of Individual Transferable Fishing Quotas: Implications of Incorporating the Processing Sector. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 31 (1): 112-28.
24. McCay, B.J. 1995. Social and Ecological Implications of ITQs: An Overview. Ocean and Coastal Management 28(1-3):3-22.
25. McCay, B.J., C. Creed, A. Finlayson, R. Apostle, and K. Mickalsen. 1996. Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) in Canadian and U.S. Fisheries. Ocean and Coastal Management 28(1-3):85-115.
26. McConnell, K.E., and M. Price. 2006. The Lay System in Commercial Fisheries: Origin and Implications. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51 (3):295-307.
27. Palsson, G., and G. Helgason. 1995. Figuring Fish and Measuring Men: The Individual Transferable Quota System in the Icelandic Cod Fishery. Ocean and Coastal Management 28(1-3):117-46.
28. Pinkerton, E., and D. Edwards. 2009. The Elephant in the Room: The Hidden Costs of Leasing Individual Transferable Fishing Quotas. Marine Policy 33(4):707-13.
29. Poulsen, E. 2009. Crab fisherman/vessel owner. Personal communication. May 29.
30. Rice, J. 2007. An Ecologist's View of Economic Instruments and Incentives. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 7(2-3): 191-204.
31. Samuelson, P.A. 1974. Is the Rent-collector Worthy of His Full Hire? Eastern Economic Journal 1(1):7-10.
32. Sepez, J., H. Lazrus, and R. Felthoven. 2008. Post-rationalization Restructuring of Commercial Crew Member Opportunities in Bering Sea and Aleutian Island Crab Fisheries. Seattle, WA: NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
33. Stiglitz, J.E. 1974. Incentives and Risk Sharing in Sharecropping. Review of Economic Studies 41(2):219-55.
34. Stone, J. 2009. Crab Fisherman/vessel owner. Personal communication. June 1.
35. Sutinen, J.G. 1979. Fishermen's Remuneration Systems and Implications for Fisheries Development. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 26(2): 147-62.
36. Weitzman, M.L. 1974. Free Access vs. Private Ownership as Alternative Systems for Managing Common Property. Journal of Economic Theory 8(2):225-34.
37. Wilen, J.E. 2009. Stranded Capital in Fisheries: The Pacific Coast Groundfish/Whiting Case. Marine Resource Economics 24(1): 1-18.
38. Wilen, J.E., and K.E. Casey. 1997. Impacts of ITQs on Labor: Employment and Remuneration. Social Implications of Quota Systems in Fisheries, G. Palsson and G. Petursdottir, eds., pp. 315-33. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Council of Ministers.