Cargando…
A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery
Harvest control rules (HCRs) have been implemented for many fisheries worldwide. However, in most instances, those HCRs are not based on the explicit feedbacks between stock properties and economic considerations. This paper develops a bio-economic model that evaluates the HCR adopted in 2004 by the...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Elsevier
2013
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26525860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.020 |
_version_ | 1782394292058193920 |
---|---|
author | Eikeset, Anne Maria Richter, Andries P. Dankel, Dorothy J. Dunlop, Erin S. Heino, Mikko Dieckmann, Ulf Stenseth, Nils Chr. |
author_facet | Eikeset, Anne Maria Richter, Andries P. Dankel, Dorothy J. Dunlop, Erin S. Heino, Mikko Dieckmann, Ulf Stenseth, Nils Chr. |
author_sort | Eikeset, Anne Maria |
collection | PubMed |
description | Harvest control rules (HCRs) have been implemented for many fisheries worldwide. However, in most instances, those HCRs are not based on the explicit feedbacks between stock properties and economic considerations. This paper develops a bio-economic model that evaluates the HCR adopted in 2004 by the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fishery Commission to manage the world's largest cod stock, Northeast Arctic cod (NEA). The model considered here is biologically and economically detailed, and is the first to compare the performance of the stock's current HCR with that of alternative HCRs derived with optimality criteria. In particular, HCRs are optimized for economic objectives including fleet profits, economic welfare, and total yield and the emerging properties are analyzed. The performance of these optimal HCRs was compared with the currently used HCR. This paper show that the current HCR does in fact comes very close to maximizing profits. Furthermore, the results reveal that the HCR that maximizes profits is the most precautionary one among the considered HCRs. Finally, the HCR that maximizes yield leads to un-precautionary low levels of biomass. In these ways, the implementation of the HCR for NEA cod can be viewed as a success story that may provide valuable lessons for other fisheries. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-4599642 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2013 |
publisher | Elsevier |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-45996422015-10-29 A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery Eikeset, Anne Maria Richter, Andries P. Dankel, Dorothy J. Dunlop, Erin S. Heino, Mikko Dieckmann, Ulf Stenseth, Nils Chr. Mar Policy Article Harvest control rules (HCRs) have been implemented for many fisheries worldwide. However, in most instances, those HCRs are not based on the explicit feedbacks between stock properties and economic considerations. This paper develops a bio-economic model that evaluates the HCR adopted in 2004 by the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fishery Commission to manage the world's largest cod stock, Northeast Arctic cod (NEA). The model considered here is biologically and economically detailed, and is the first to compare the performance of the stock's current HCR with that of alternative HCRs derived with optimality criteria. In particular, HCRs are optimized for economic objectives including fleet profits, economic welfare, and total yield and the emerging properties are analyzed. The performance of these optimal HCRs was compared with the currently used HCR. This paper show that the current HCR does in fact comes very close to maximizing profits. Furthermore, the results reveal that the HCR that maximizes profits is the most precautionary one among the considered HCRs. Finally, the HCR that maximizes yield leads to un-precautionary low levels of biomass. In these ways, the implementation of the HCR for NEA cod can be viewed as a success story that may provide valuable lessons for other fisheries. Elsevier 2013-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4599642/ /pubmed/26525860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.020 Text en © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY NC ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Eikeset, Anne Maria Richter, Andries P. Dankel, Dorothy J. Dunlop, Erin S. Heino, Mikko Dieckmann, Ulf Stenseth, Nils Chr. A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title | A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title_full | A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title_fullStr | A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title_full_unstemmed | A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title_short | A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery |
title_sort | bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the northeast arctic cod fishery |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26525860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.020 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT eikesetannemaria abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT richterandriesp abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dankeldorothyj abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dunloperins abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT heinomikko abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dieckmannulf abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT stensethnilschr abioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT eikesetannemaria bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT richterandriesp bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dankeldorothyj bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dunloperins bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT heinomikko bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT dieckmannulf bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery AT stensethnilschr bioeconomicanalysisofharvestcontrolrulesforthenortheastarcticcodfishery |