|
AgEcon Search >
Marine Resource Economics >
Volume 18, Number 4, 2003 >
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://purl.umn.edu/28230
|
| Title: | POLLUTION EXTERNALITIES AND FISHERIES: INSIGHTS FROM A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT BIOECONOMIC MODEL |
| Authors: | Collins, Alan
Pascoe, Sean
Whitmarsh, David |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses the question of how management response to pollution in a fishery affects the incidence of economic damages. We develop a spatially explicit bioeconomic model which is used to examine the effects of an acute pollution event. Two scenarios are considered, both involving a prohibition on shellfish harvesting in the area affected by pollution, but distinguished according to the freedom given to vessels to move out of the affected area. The model suggests that closing an area to fishing may have widespread economic repercussions if it is linked biologically or technically with others. The decision to allow or disallow boats to move from an affected area is shown to make a crucial difference in the level and variability of profits in the fishery system as a whole. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/28230 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 18, Number 4, 2003 |
| Total Pages: | 16 |
| Language: | English |
| From Page: | 313 |
| To Page: | 328 |
| Collections: | Volume 18, Number 4, 2003
|
Files in This Item:
| File |
Size | Format |
|---|
| 18040313.pdf | 230Kb | PDF | View/Open |
|
Recommend this item
All items in AgEcon Search are protected by copyright.
|
