Quantifying welfare gains of coastal and estuarine ecosystem rehabilitation for recreational fisheries

Blue carbon as a natural climate solution

“…Co-benefits, sometimes called ecosystem services, contribute to the livelihoods and well-being of coastal communities. This example includes values in Australian dollars (AU$) of fisheries [161][162][163] , coastline protection 161 and recreation 161,164 provided by blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs).…”

What Are the Impacts of a Coastal Zone Protection Policy on Farmers’ Livelihood Capital? Empirical Analysis From the Perspective of Farmer Participation

“…For example, these impacts include increasing the biodiversity of coastal areas (Nguyen et al, 2018), improving the suitability of the living environments of residents (Bennett et al, 2018) and adjusting the climate environment (Yu et al, 2010). Although some scholars have found that implementing coastal ecological protection policies will reduce the income of coastal fishing families (Wang et al, 2017;Huang et al, 2020), they have not observed the different effects on the multidimensional welfare of coastal farmers who are most closely related to coastal ecological protection. In particular, the impact of implementing coastal ecological protection policies on the multidimensional welfare of coastal farmers is not accurately measured by effective methods, hence this paper uses the PSM-DID method to measure the changes in farmers' multidimensional capital welfare before and after implementation of a coastal ecological protection policy.…”

“…Therefore, it is urgent to carry out the necessary restoration and protection of coastal ecological environments, and a series of studies have been carried out in coastal areas to formulate coastal ecological environment protection policies (van de Graaff et al, 1991;Rojas et al, 2019;Economou et al, 2020;Lai and Leone, 2020). Current researches mainly focus on the significant positive externalities that are brought about by the formulation and implementation of coastal ecological protection policies on the social economy and environment (Bennett et al, 2018;Nguyen et al, 2018;Huang et al, 2020), but pay little attention to the differences of their impacts on the well-being of social groups, especially negative externalities that may have adverse impacts on the well-being of coastal farmers who are closely related to coastal ecological protection.…”

Angling to Reach a Destination to Fish—Exploring the Land and Water Travel Dynamics of Recreational Fishers in Port Phillip Bay, Australia

“…Fishing blocks for each trip were assigned to one or more of 40 defined individually numbered rectangular fishing blocks (approximately 7 km by 9 km) in PPB (Figure 1) in order to spatially resolve each angler's daily activity on water. Every vessel launched from a boat ramp in PPB was assumed to be capable of accessing any of the fishing blocks, yielding 800 potential alternative ramp-block and 1,600 block-block combinations from which each angler might choose (Huang et al, 2020).…”

“…A major recreational fishing industry (i.e., tackle, bait, equipment, charter, and boat sales) exists in the State of Victoria and the direct and indirect economic output of its recreational fishing activities was estimated to be about AUD $7.5 billion in 2018/19 arising from more than six million fishing trips, generating > 14,000 direct jobs (Huang et al, 2020;VFA, 2020). Centrally located in Victoria, Port Phillip Bay (PPB; Figure 1) is a large marine embayment bordered by Greater Melbourne and Geelong regions extending along the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas on its eastern and western sides, respectively (ASGS, 2021).…”