Malaysian trawlers: economics of vessel size

This article focuses on the economics of trawling in a location-specific fishery that is affected by seasonal monsoons. Both field evaluation and econometric models were used to determine the economic performances of trawlers of different tonnages. The findings indicate that in a multispecies monsoon-affected fishery medium-sized vessels in the category of 20–30 tons were most efficient.     

Institutions and management of fishing resources: The governance of the Galician model

Institutional analysis is among the most significant research programs in the economics of fisheries management, and it increases our understanding of the relationships between the institutional framework and the fishing sector. Galicia is one of the most important fishing regions in the European Union, and this paper analyses the Galician fishing sector from a new institutional economics approach. The paper studies several topics that characterise the relationship between institutional rules and fisheries management in Galicia. As a result, we demonstrate new institutional findings on fishery governance through the study of the recent Galician experience.     

台湾海峡及其邻近海域渔业资源的管理

应用Ｓｃｈａｅｆｅｒ和Ｆｏｘ剩余产量模式及其由此衍生的生物经济模式和Ｇｕｌｌａｎｄ最适产量Ｙ０．１模式,分别估算了台湾海峡及其邻近海域渔业资源的最大持续产量、最大持续捕捞力量,并对各模式计算的诸项经济指标进行比较,讨论了渔业管理方案,确定了近期适合国情,并对各模式计算的诸项经济指标进行比较,讨论了渔管理方案,确定了近期适合国情、省情的管理目标。     

Anchoring to determine negotiated catch limits: a case study of an industrial fishery in Oman

Despite refinement in scientific methods of setting total allowable catches (TACs), the choice of values is affected by uncertainty that arises as a result of incomplete information and the behavioural intentions of resource users, among others. In this context, this paper promotes ‘anchoring’ – which is a subject of behavioural economics and is generally practised in decision-making when faced with uncertainty – as an approach to TAC setting. We estimate a set of anchor points for nine demersal species by employing two modelling scenarios, the first using catch-and-effort data and the second only catch data collected from the demersal trawl fishery. A non-parametric test yielded no significant difference between the sets of anchor points generated from the two models. It is hoped that the use of anchoring would constitute a proactive management approach that could serve as a mechanism of promoting knowledge integration and effective communication, developing mutual trust, and improving management outcomes in the future.     

海洋捕捞与海水养殖监管系统研究

文章针对海洋渔业由于过度捕捞造成渔业资源枯竭的问题,提出了一种基于海洋遥感(ORS)、全球定位系统(GPS)和海洋地理信息系统(MGIS)等高新技术的海洋捕捞与海水养殖监管系统设计方案,可以远程自动对海洋渔业区域的水质多参数信息和养殖环境视频信息进行综合采集、传输及监控,也可以自动采集传输渔船RFID身份识别信息、渔船AIS自动识别信息、渔船GPS定位信息和捕捞生产视频信息等,并通过海洋精细渔业专家系统ES进行渔业养殖监控、渔业环境资源监测评估、渔船船数和功率数控制和海洋捕捞生产渔情监测等。该系统可以实现海洋渔业精细化捕捞和海洋渔业精细化养殖,促进海洋渔业可持续发展。     

资源增殖型渔业的理论探讨与对策建议

以科学发展观为指导,界定了资源增殖型渔业的内涵和外延;在评价以往资源增殖措施绩效的基础上,依据经济学和行为科学理论,运用“故障树分析法”、“力场分析法”等,从制度的缺陷和缺位,解释了渔业资源衰退的原因;并从观念转变、措施改进、制度创新、利益机制建立等方面提出了对策建议.     

海浪灾害对贻贝脱落率的影响

海洋灾害造成贝类养殖损失的价值评估是海洋科学与水产科学交叉产生的新科学命题,同时也是渔业经济学与保险价值核算的难题.本文从海浪导致贻贝脱落致灾的角度展开研究,采用第三代海浪模型SWAN,以嵊泗海域作为研究区,通过P-Ⅲ曲线拟合、波高重现期分析,定量研究了台风期间贻贝脱落率与有效波高之间的相关性.研究表明,当有效波高达到...     

基于改进ConvLSTM网络太平洋长鳍金枪鱼时空分布趋势预测

渔场资源与位置的变动由空间与环境因子共同驱动,远洋渔场时空演变信息的精准预测是远洋捕捞的关键支撑。该研究考虑渔业生产统计数据,并兼顾同期海洋环境数据包括海表面温度（Sea surface temperature, SST）、海表面盐度（Sea surface salinity, SSS）、初级生产力（primary productivity, PP）和溶解氧浓度（dissolved oxygen concentration, O2）,提出了一种融合卷积长短期记忆网络（ConvLSTM）和卷积神经网络（CNN）的渔场时空分布预测模型。首先对时空因子进行编码,提取高层时空特征;其次采用CNN提取海洋环境变量的抽象特征,并基于ConvLSTM提取渔业数据的时空特征,最后融合高层时空关联信息对渔场时空演变趋势进行预测。以1995－2018年太平洋海域的延绳钓生产数据对模型进行验证,模型的根均方误差为0.1036,实验对比发现较传统渔场预报模型的预测误差降低15%~40%,预测的高产渔区与实际作业的高渔获量区匹配度高。该研究构建的渔场时空预测模型能够准确地预测出太平洋长鳍金枪鱼的时空分布,为太平洋长鳍金枪鱼的延绳钓渔业提供科学参考依据。     

A note on the economics of Swedish Baltic Sea fisheries

The cod stocks in the Baltic Sea are important not only for fisheries but for the entire ecosystem utilized by numerous stakeholders around the coast. All such activities have economic values. In this note the economics of the Swedish Baltic Sea cod fishery is estimated in relation to the sector's interaction with other users of the Baltic Sea ecosystem. The results show a negative resource rent for the fishery, € −5 million without public expenses (subsidies and administrative costs), and € −13 million including public expenses. The interactions between the fisheries and tourism, seal population, carbon dioxide emissions, recreational fishing, and discards are discussed, and when monetary estimates are available these are related to the estimated resource rent.     

Fishery analysis using gradient-dependent optimal interpolation

The current lack of high-precision information on subsurface seawater is a constraint in fishery research. Based on Argo temperature and salinity profiles, this study applied the gradient-dependent optimal interpolation to reconstruct daily subsurface oceanic environmental information according to fishery dates and locations. The relationship between subsurface information and matching yellowfin tuna(YFT) in the western and central Pacific Ocean(WCPO) was examined using catch data from January 1...     

Economics of science in fishery sector—the European case

Fisheries research organisations are described as large entities. In the European Union, Iceland, Israel and Norway, one or two main fisheries research institutes have been identified. In this detailed examination, research programmes in fisheries is presented in various technological fields. Theoretical knowledge of Evolutionary economics is used to understand the functioning of fisheries research in these 17 countries. Concepts of technological trajectories, path-dependancy, technological lock-in are valuable. Six main technological trajectories synthetize the foundations of research in fisheries amongst European Union, Iceland, Israel and Norway. It deals with fishery biology, fishing gear technology, aquaculture, ecology, quality (of habitat anf fish), and socioeconomics. For example, most of research institutes are concerned with the trajectory of fishery biology. In others cases, specificities exist in a few countries as socioeconomics.     

基于数据挖掘算法的WCPO金枪鱼围网渔情预测研究

利用数据挖掘方法对1990年1月—2001年7月10余年的WCPO金枪鱼围网作业生产数据以及该时段的18个与WCPO金枪鱼围网产量相关的海洋环境因子进行分析,将信息增益分析技术和基于粗糙集的属性化简方法相结合用以确定影响WCPO金枪鱼围网产量的关键因子集。利用多元回归分析方法建立基于关键因子集的预测模型,经过大量试验对比选择较佳的预测模型,达到了理想的效果。同时,验证了所确定关键因子集的可靠性,有效性。首次利用多种数据挖掘方法相结合的方式对多种影响因子进行分析,开展渔情预报研究,达到了较好的效果,为渔情预报研究提供了一种新思路,同时为渔业生产提供了可靠的依据。     

基于组件技术的渔业电子海图系统设计与实现

基于对国内外渔业电子海图系统发展现状的研究,提出了开发新型渔业电子海图系统的构成、总体方案和功能模型,采用IHO S-57海图国际标准即海道测量数据传输标准(Transfer Standard for Digital Hydrographic Data)的电子海图,介绍了应用Visual C++2010开发环境和ECIVMS组件进行系统开发的关键技术和方法。本系统的设计与实现结果表明,软件已实现了海图物标图层显示、渔业信息查询、渔区数据库管理、渔区及作业安全等深线标绘、遥感影像加载,实时潮汐计算及海况信息叠加显示等主要功能,为渔业信息组网服务及构建一体化信息获取、存储、处理、表达、传输和发布平台提供了基础支持。     

The future of the South African demersal fishing industry: an industry perspective

The South African demersal fishery can look to the future with confidence, despite the high-capital need to replace an ageing fleet. Predictability is absolutely necessary in the fishery, and to ensure this, care needs to be taken that information is accurate, that the most appropriate exploitation strategy is being followed, that regulatory measures are being adhered to and that the entrepreneur has an exploitation right of reasonable tenure.     

海渔况信息产品的制作原理及其应用

海渔况信息产品对于渔业资源的研究、调查、预测、评估具有重要意义。利用计算机制作的海渔况图对于信息的表达一目了然,具有速度快、时效新、反应及时等特点,因此计算机制图已经成为目前海渔况信息产品的主要制作手段。论文将以《太平洋大眼金枪鱼延绳钓渔场与SST叠加分布图集》和《东海中心渔场预报图》为例,简要介绍海渔况信息产品的制作原理及其应用。     

Distributional effects of property rights: Transitions in the Atlantic Herring fishery

A principal challenge in developing any fishery management plan is the allocation of benefits and costs among participants in the fishery. This process is further complicated by imperfect information about future market demand and limited ability to predict the consequences of regulatory change. This paper offers a new approach to policymakers, using econometric analysis to simulate the potential impact of individual tradable quotas (ITQs) in a fishery. We compare the distribution of harvest across participants in the Atlantic Herring fishery under the current open access regime and under a potential ITQ regime, assuming two different levels of future demand. Our results show that production efficiency varies by vessel gear, home-port and relationship with buyers. Some of the predicted consequences of ITQs are: vessels from Massachusetts will gain share relative to those from Maine; trawlers will gain share relative to purse seine vessels; and independent vessels will lose share relative to vessels that are primarily contracted to specific processors or bait companies. These results will help policymakers in developing future management plans for the herring fishery. More generally, this analytical approach can help regulators in any fishery assess the potential impact of alternative policy changes under alternative future demand scenarios.     

The bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) industry collapse in Virginia and its implications for the successful management of scallop-seagrass habitats

Virginia supported the most productive bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) fishery in the United States in 1930, but the fishery disappeared three years later and never recovered. This collapse highlights a tipping point, but managers of extant bay scallop fisheries have not looked to this case for guidance, because the collapse has long been attributed to an exogenous eelgrass (Zostera marina) ‘wasting disease’ pandemic. Consequently, it remains little understood. However, efforts to restore the fishery, following successful eelgrass restoration, now warrant a thorough examination of its economic significance and disappearance. This study comprehensively surveyed information on the original fishery and reconstructed the pre-collapse population to evaluate restoration prospects and management strategies that reduce the risk of future scallop-seagrass system collapses. Harvest records suggest that overharvesting possibly contributed to the Virginia fishery disappearance—a factor that influenced other bay scallop fisheries but did not alarm contemporary managers in Virginia. The harvest peaked before managers observed eelgrass disappearing and exceeded most pre-collapse population estimates. Intensive dredging possibly precipitated a feedback that reduced scallop recruitment by lowering seagrass shoot densities. Managers should, therefore, consider a potential tradeoff between future scallop harvest and eelgrass restoration goals. The restored wild scallop population in Virginia cannot yet support a commercial fishery at historic levels, which removed between 270 and 380x as many individuals. However, the economic risks associated with reestablishing this fishery are low. The collapse did not cause a significant loss in total economic value, because harvesters rapidly shifted focus to clams, supplanting lost scallop revenue.     

Choosing a fishery’s governance structure using data poor methods

Multi-species fisheries are complex to manage and the ability to develop an appropriate governance structure is often seriously impeded because trading between sustainability objectives at the species level, economic objectives at the fleet level, and social objectives at the community scale, is complex. Many of these fisheries also tend to have a mix of information, with stock assessments available for some species and almost no information on other species. The fleets themselves comprise fishers from small family enterprises to large vertically integrated businesses. The Queensland trawl fishery in Australia is used as a case study for this kind of fishery. It has the added complexity that a large part of the fishery is within a World Heritage Area, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which is managed by an agency of the Australian Commonwealth Government whereas the fishery itself is managed by the Queensland State Government. A stakeholder elicitation process was used to develop social, governance, economic and ecological objectives, and then weight the relative importance of these. An expert group was used to develop different governance strawmen (or management strategies) and these were assessed by a group of industry stakeholders and experts using multi-criteria decision analysis techniques against the different objectives. One strawman clearly provided the best overall set of outcomes given the multiple objectives, but was not optimal in terms of every objective, demonstrating that even the “best” strawman may be less than perfect.     

Managing Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is an important but not well managed fishery in the Mediterranean Sea. In this paper, management system is evaluated with information on stock status, resource rent, and total employment. The non-restrictive implementation of International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) policies is found to be the institutional reason for its management failure, while the common-property and shared stock nature of this fishery is the fundamental reason. To address these major issues, policy schemes are proposed to help sustainably manage this valuable resource in the Mediterranean Sea.     

Dispersion of revenue in mixed fisheries

Measures of concentration taken from industrial economics are used to provide a measure of the dispersion of national fleet revenue among contributing species. The Gini coefficient and Herfindahl index provide a basic conceptual framework given variations in the number of species and their contribution. The paper analyses data for landings by species in a recent year in Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The Herfindahl index is considered as an alternative to adjusting the Gini Coefficient to allow for reliance on differing numbers of species. It is concluded that both statistics contribute to describing the degree of dependence on a number of species within a fishery.