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| Title: | Fishing Technology and Fleet Dynamics: Predictions from a Bioeconomic Model |
| Authors: | Sampson, David B. |
| Keywords: | fishing technology
fleet dynamics
bioeconomic model
fishing location
fishing cost functions |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 7 No. 1 |
| Abstract: | Bioeconomic models of fisheries usually do not provide details of fishermen's short-run behavior. This paper develops a model for the short-run selection of fishing location by a profit-maximizing fisherman in an open-access fishery given that fish density increases further from port and given that fishing trips have a fixed duration. For any particular level of fish price and fish stock abundance, a fishing vessel's technical characteristics (fuel consumption, catch rate, vessel speed) and economic characteristics (wage rates, fuel price) determine the optimum location for fishing. A long-run model is derived; the cost flows for the fishing vessel and the biological dynamics are added to the system. The models are applied to the evolution of a hypothetical fishery in which fishermen utilize either an active fishing technology (trawlers) or a passive one (long-liners). |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/48590 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 07, Number 1, 1992 |
| Total Pages: | 22 |
| From Page: | 37 |
| To Page: | 58 |
| Collections: | Volume 07, Number 1, 1992
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