Optimal choice of fishing grounds

Fisheries regulations allow management based on cooperative decisions instead of a regular ‘race-to-fish’ situation. However, there are downsides of equal rights regulations: asymmetries between countries can translate into advantages in resource extraction that cannot be utilized. These advantages include development and restructuring of the fleets and spatial closeness to the most productive fishing grounds. Our technical report investigates these question for the Baltic Sea demersal trawlers and seiners.

Read here

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s