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Modern fishing technology and profitability in a second best situation

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  • Anders Skonhoft

    (Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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This paper formulates a simple biomass growth model of a fishery. In this model, fish are exploited in a restricted open-access regime where a fixed number of harvesters exploit the fish stock in a myopic profit-maximizing manner. It is demonstrated that more modern fishing technology has a two-sided profitability effect, where the direct, short-run, positive effect is counterbalanced by a negative, long-run, indirect effect that slows population growth. In the steady state, it is shown that more modern technology dissipates the rent under already high exploitation pressure, while the opposite occurs if the fish stock is initially little, or moderately, exploited.

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  • Anders Skonhoft, 2007. "Modern fishing technology and profitability in a second best situation," Working Paper Series 8907, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
    • Handle: RePEc:nst:samfok:8907
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    Keywords

    Fisheries; technology; rent; second best;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation

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