Objective
The intergovernmental UN Conference on Highly Migratory and Straddling Stocks (1993-95) addressed the management of fishery resources found both within the coastal state 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the adjacent high seas. During the negotiation process, a number of suggestions were designed to solve the contradiction between the rights and duties of the coastal states and the distant water nations and to improve cooperation between fishing nations. A consensus was reached on that the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks is to be carried out through regional fisheries management organisations
Research has been undertaken with regard to both parts.
As regards part 1), management issues regarding straddling and highly migratory fish stocks have been reviewed. Preliminary analysis of some alternative cooperative management regimes has been undertaken.
As regards part 2), models of population dynamics have been developed for both Norwegian spring spawning herring and Atlantic bluefin tuna. Furthermore, available cost, effort, harvest and revenue data have been collected, and preliminary estimations of cost and harvest functions have been undertaken.
PUBLICATIONS:
Arnason, R. (1997). "Some Elementary Modelling Ideas". The Management of High Seas Fisheries M-1.97.
Arnason, R. and P. Halldorsson (1997). "The Icelandic Herring Fisheries 1950-1996: Descriptive Account"
Arnason, R. (1997). "High Seas Fishing: Simple Computer Modelling".
Bjorndal, T., G.R. Munro and V. Kaitala (1996). "Management of High Seas Fisheries." Discussion paper no. 6/96, Centre for Fisheries Economics.
Bjorndal, T., F. Asche, A. D. Hole and W. Slinde (1997). "Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring - Some Biological and Economic Issues." Discussion paper no. 3/97, Centre for Fisheries Economics.
T. Bjorndal, G.R. Munro, M. Lindroos and V. Kaitala (1998). "Management of High Seas Fisheries." Discussion paper no 1/98, Centre for Fisheries Economics.
Bjorndal, T. and D.V. Gordon (1998). "Cost Functions for the Norwegian Spring Spawning Fishery." Preliminary draft, Centre for Fisheries Economics, January 1998.
Flam, D. and R.E. Svarstad (1997). "Appropriating a Straddling Fish Stock." Discussion paper no. 5/1997, Centre for Fisheries Economics.
Haraldsson, G. O. (1997). "The Purse Seine Fleet: Operating Data".
Kirkwood, G.P. and C.J. Barry. (1997). "Specification of a Biological and Catch Prediction Model for Northern Bluefin Tuna".
Magnusson, G. (1997). "A Framework for Analyzing the Exploitation of Migratory Fish Stocks". The Management of High Seas Fisheries.
Munro, G. R. (1998). "The Management of High Seas Fisheries and the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks: A Review".
Nobbs-Thiessen, J.(1997). "Biological Modelling of the Norwegian Spring-Spawning Herring Stock".
Patterson, K.R. (1998). "Biological Modelling of the Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring Stock". Fisheries Research Services Report No. 1/98.
An abstract of the papers "Northern Atlantic and Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna: Biological and Economic Issues" and "Bioeconomic model of Bluefin Tuna" was submitted to the 3rd European Marine Science and Technology Conference, to be held in Lisbon, in May 1998.
DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES:
V. Kaitala and M. Lindroos [1997a]: "Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries: A Characteristic Function Approach", paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Tilburg University, June 26-28, 1997,
V. Kaitala and M. Lindroos [1997b]: "Sharing the Benefits of Cooperation in High Seas Fisheries: A Characteristic Function Game Approach", Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration, Working Paper No. 45/1997, Bergen, 28 pp. (Also submitted to Natural Resource Modelling).
Planned dissemination activities
T. Bjorndal, V. Kaitala, M. Lindroos and G. Munro [1998]: "The Management of High Seas Fisheries", Annals of Operations Research - special issue on natural resources, (forthcoming). (Also submitted to the 3rd European Marine Science and Technology Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 23-27 May 1998 and to the 9th International Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Tromso, Norway, July 8-11 1998).
S. Touzeau and V. Kaitala [1998]: "Implementation of the Norwegian spring-spawning herring stock dynamics: a risk analysis", Working Paper, (forthcoming in University Series).
V. Kaitala and M. Lindroos [1998]: "Sharing the Benefits of Cooperation in a High Seas Fishery Game: an Application of the Nucleolus", the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE/AERE), Venice, Italy, June 25-27, 1998 (accepted for presentation).
Our research consists of two parts:
1) Theoretical analyses of the UN negotiation process, the implication of the negotiation text produced to the international exploitation of marine resources, and possible regional arrangement on the management of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. The prevailing methodologies applied are economic analysis, game theory and decision analysis.
2) Detailed economic analyses of two case studies that are important to the European Union.
One of the cases is the Norwegian spring spawning (Atlanto-Scandinan) herring, exploited by Norway, Russia, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and several EU countries. The other case is Atlantic bluefin tuna, exploited by a number of EU countries.
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