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| Title: | A Spatial Allocation Model for the New England Fisheries |
| Authors: | Emerson, William
Anderson, James L. |
| Keywords: | trade
spatial equilibrium
fishery
policy |
| Issue Date: | 1989 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 6 No. 2 |
| Abstract: | The objective of this study is to determine the impact of (1) the new 1984 maritime boundary between the United States and Canada in the Northwest Atlantic and (2) the availability of the Brooklyn, New York, port as an alternative landing site on the distribution of domestic and imported groundfish (cod, haddock, and founder)
from their point of capture or entry to their final market. A deterministic nonlinear
programming model of the New England groundfish fishery was developed. The
model maximizes net consumer surplus to determine the competitive equilibrium
spatial allocation of harvesting, landing, processing, pricing, and consumption
patterns. The model incorporates retail demand functions for cod, haddock, and
flatfish for five demand regions; steaming costs, fishing costs, and capacity
constraints for two vessel classes; transportation costs; constraints on port and
processing capacity; and supply constraints for nine possible ocean fishing areas.
The model was specified for three different cases, the first simulating 1984 conditions
(under the original boundary and before the construction of the Brooklyn port), the
second incorporating the effects of the new boundary, and the third allowing landings
to occur in Brooklyn, New York. Results of the model are presented contrasting the
solutions obtained for each case. Implications regarding resource, port, and
processing use and consumption and pricing patterns are discussed. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/48505 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 06, Number 2, 1989 |
| Total Pages: | 22 |
| From Page: | 123 |
| To Page: | 144 |
| Collections: | Volume 06, Number 2, 1989
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