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Explaining noncompliance in the Norwegian coastal cod fishery: an application of the multinomial logit

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  • Carsten Lynge Jensen
  • Bernt Aarset

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Establishing motive is central to the analysis of criminal behaviour. This article analyses the range of motives for noncompliant behaviour among coastal cod fishermen. A multinomial logit model is employed to analyse the reasons that underlie various motives. The four motives compared in this study are economic, technological and social and motives caused by bureaucracy and legitimacy problems. The economic motive is found to be most important for coastal fishermen. However, the cross-sectional data indicate that motives vary with fishing gear, vessel length and fishermen's age. The results indicate that identifying motives for noncompliant behaviour is not straightforward but is important for reducing the extent of infringements of the regulations. Fishermen who use gill net, seine and long line, for example, are more often motivated to noncompliance by technical problems and bureaucracy than hand-jig fishers. The study suggests that in order to prevent noncompliance behaviour, the authorities' management policy should be designed to address the problems encountered by different categories of fishers. For example, offences that are committed because of technical problems should be resolved by increasing the involvement of fishermen in the process of drawing up regulations, whereas offences motivated by economic factors should be reduced by increasing inspections.

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  • Carsten Lynge Jensen & Bernt Aarset, 2008. "Explaining noncompliance in the Norwegian coastal cod fishery: an application of the multinomial logit," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(4), pages 505-513.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:40:y:2008:i:4:p:505-513
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840600606245
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    1. Daniel Alfredo Revollo-Fernandez & Alonso Aguilar-Ibarra, 2014. "Measures of risk associated to regulations compliance: a laboratory experiment on the use of common-pool resources," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(7), pages 903-921, August.
    2. Andrey Belov & Genrietta Soboleva, 2020. "Mass Media Reporting and Illicit Harvesting of Russian Crab: Implications for Sustainable Fishery," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-16, August.
    3. Holstein, Fredrik & Gren, Ing-Marie, 2013. "Violation of environmental regulations in Sweden: Economic motives, environmental attitudes, and social capital," Working Paper Series 2013:3, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department Economics.

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