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BBC News: World’s Fishing Fleets Mapped from Orbit

This BBC article on big data and fisheries is fascinating. Using satellite photography, researchers have mapped all of the world’s fisheries by area, finding that fishery area is larger than arable acreage while providing less than 2% of all calories consumed. I also found the conclusion thought-provoking that the patterns reveal larger effects from politics …

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Overfishing Conference at Perc

Lynne Kiesling Jonathan Adler reports from a PERC workshop on fisheries management and how property rights institutions can reduce pervasive overfishing problems in fishing. Overfishing is a serious environmental and economic problem, and Jon provides excellent links to the body of research showing that property rights institutions, such as tradeable catch shares, can reduce overfishing …

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Overfishing and the Impending Collapse of Fisheries

Lynne Kiesling Why is it so difficult, in terms of politics and transaction costs, to define and enforce property rights in fish? If we fail to do so, some important fish species are likely to go extinct due to overfishing, such as the bluefin tuna. Migratory fish like the bluefin pose the biggest policy challenges, …

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More Definitive Evidence That Property Rights Improve Fishing Yields and Sustainability

Lynne Kiesling I’ve been enjoying this new research from environmental economist Chris Costello and his two co-authors, Steven Gaines and John Lynham: “Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?”: Recent reports suggest that most of the world’s commercial fisheries could collapse within decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions remains rare. Bioeconomic …

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Fishing for Red Snapper in the Gulf: Quotas and Derbies

Michael Giberson While Lynne was visiting Maryland in search of the perfect yarn score, I was in New Orleans for the Jazz and Heritage festival. I’ll share a photo or two once I have a chance to sort through them myself. In the meantime, I’ll share this article from the Monday morning Times-Picayune, which reveals …

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Michael Dealessi On Overfishing

And while you’re at the Fraser Forum, also check out Michael DeAlessi’s article on using property rights to combat overfishing. Using property rights to address overfishing is a much-covered topic here at KP, and Michael’s new article adds to the already voluminous evidence that property rights over natural resources produce superior outcomes.

Fishing And Aquaculture Technology

This article from the May issue of Wired is a fascinating look at technological innovation in aquaculture and open-sea fish farming. The article has a lot of detail on problems of overfishing and how innovation (not bureaucracy) is addressing the problem in the face of ever-increasing human demands for animal protein.

Reduce Overfishing By Defining Property Rights

Problems of overfishing in our oceans continue, notwithstanding the increasingly stringent seasons, schedules and quotas that governments are mandating in the fishing industry. Such unintended consequences emanating from following a command-and-control regulatory policy is not surprising — fishermen compensate for reduced numbers of fishing days by bringing in as large a catch as they can …

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