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Lessons from the northern hake long-term management plan: Could the economic assessment have accepted it?

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  • Da Rocha, José María
  • Gutiérrez Huerta, María José

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An economic expert working group (STECF/SGBRE-07-05) was convened in 2007 for evaluating the potential economic consequences of a Long-Term Management Plan for the northern hake. Analyzing all the scenarios proposed by biological assessment, they found that keeping the F in the status quo level was the best policy in terms of net present values for both yield and profits. This result is counter intuitive because it may indicate that effort costs do no affect the economic reference points. However, it is well accepted that the inclusion of costs affects negatively the economic reference points. In this paper, applying a dynamic agestructured model to the northern hake, we show that the optimal fishing mortality that maximizes the net present value of profits is lower than Fmax.

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  • Da Rocha, José María & Gutiérrez Huerta, María José, 2011. "Lessons from the northern hake long-term management plan: Could the economic assessment have accepted it?," DFAEII Working Papers 1988-088X, University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II.
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