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Open-access Fishery Performance When Vessels Use Goal Achievement Behavior

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  • Anderson, Lee G.
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    While most bioeconomic models assume that vessel operators use profit maximizing behavior, it is sometimes argued that participants use other operational goals. The purpose of this paper is to compare how vessel behavior, the bioeconomic equilibrium, and the path to achieve it are changed if participants use goal achievement behavior. It is shown that, depending on the operational rule used to achieve the goal, there can be significant differences in the amount of individual vessel effort at different stock sizes, and this can affect the location and the stability of the bioeconomic equilibrium. In addition, goal achievement behavior will generally lead to a larger open-access overshoot in terms of fleet size.

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    Article provided by Marine Resources Foundation in its journal Marine Resource Economics.

    Volume (Year): 19 (2004)
    Issue (Month): 4 ()
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    Handle: RePEc:ags:mareec:28161

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    Keywords: profit maximizing behavior; goal achievement behavior; open-access fishery behavior; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Q22;

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    1. Parks, Peter J. & Bonifaz, Manuel, 1994. "Nonsustainable Use of Renewable Resources: Mangrove Deforestation and Mariculture in Ecuador," Marine Resource Economics, Marine Resources Foundation, vol. 9(1).
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    1. Smith, Martin D. & Zhang, Junjie & Coleman, Felicia C., 2008. "Econometric modeling of fisheries with complex life histories: Avoiding biological management failures," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 265-280, May.

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