Location Choice in New England Trawl Fisheries: Old Habits Die Hard

Holland, Daniel S.; Sutinen, Jon G.

doi:10.2307/3147262

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“…Hence, the ability of fishers to respond to changes in relative prices by varying their fishing activity is limited. Several recent studies (e.g., [25]) have suggested that the fishing activity is largely influenced by habit, with only relatively minor changes in effort allocations in response to price, in the short term. Additionally, we consider that the Greek small-scale and bottom trawlers fisheries are operating in a situation of unbalanced ratio between demand and supply, where cultural and economic factors generate a high demand for seafood products leading to constantly high prices, not significantly affected by either the landing volume or the season.…”

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Assessing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Bottom Trawler Vessels in Greece

Pinello

Liontakis²,

Sintori³

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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This study explores the technical and scale efficiency of two types of Greek fishing vessels, small-scale vessels and bottom trawlers, using a bias-corrected input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis model. Moreover, the associations between efficiency scores and vessel's and skipper's characteristics are also explored. The results indicate that small-scale vessels achieve a very low average technical efficiency score (0.42) but a much higher scale efficiency score (0.81). Conversely, bottom trawlers achieve lower scale but higher technical efficiency scores (0.68 and 0.73, respectively). One important finding of this study is that the technical efficiency of small-scale vessels, in contrast to trawlers, is positively associated with the experience of the skipper. In a looser context, it can be said that small-scale fisheries mainly rely on skill, whereas bottom trawlers rely more on technology. This study concludes that there is space for improvement in efficiency, mainly for small-scale vessels, which could allow the achievement of the same level of output by using reduced inputs.

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Assessing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Bottom Trawler Vessels in Greece

Pinello

Liontakis²,

Sintori³

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…Furthermore, it is possible to find areas of very low fishing activity within areas of intensive commercial activity as ascertained from the satellite-tracking devices now deployed on vessels > 24 m long in N European and NE American waters (Murawski et al 2000, Dinmore et al 2003. Presumably such behaviour arises from knowledge of consistent past catches and lack of seabed obstructions in particular areas which results in a propensity for fishers to adopt a risk-averse strategy when fishing under the constraints of ever increasing restrictions (Jennings & Kaiser 1998, Holland & Sutinen 2000, Kaiser 2005). Nonetheless, whatever one's view on the adequacy or inadequacy of control areas in most of the fishing-impact experiments covered by this metaanalysis, it must be agreed that the primary response to fishing impact demonstrated here is a decline in taxon abundance (often a very substantial one) compared to 'controls'.…”

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Global analysis of response and recovery of benthic biota to fishing

Kaiser¹,

Clarke²,

Hinz³

et al. 2006

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…in the latter case fishers seem to prefer the alternative with higher variation when the means are equal. Another study inspired by Bockstael and Opaluch (1983) is Holland and Sutinen (2000). Their results indicated risk-loving behaviour but, according to the authors, fishers in their sample tried to reduce risk in ways that…”

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Are Commercial Fishers Risk-Lovers?

Eggert¹,

Martinsson²

2004

Land Economics

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Empirical studies of fishers' preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice experiment with Swedish commercial fishers. Our results show that almost 90% of the respondents do not behave as expected-utility maximizers. 48% of the fishers can be broadly characterized as risk-neutral, 26% as modestly risk-averse, while 26% are strongly risk-averse. Fishers are more risk-neutral the higher the fraction of their household's income comes from fishing, while fishers with a positive attitude to individual quotas are more risk-averse. Sensitivity testing implies that decisions with modest stakes like a few days of fishing are not influenced by wealth level.

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Location Choice in New England Trawl Fisheries: Old Habits Die Hard

Cited by 179 publications

References 13 publications

Assessing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Bottom Trawler Vessels in Greece

Assessing the Efficiency of Small-Scale and Bottom Trawler Vessels in Greece

Global analysis of response and recovery of benthic biota to fishing

Are Commercial Fishers Risk-Lovers?

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