Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries

Wisdom Akpalu and Godwin Kofi Vondolia

No 490, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: Fishers in developing countries do not have the resources to acquire advanced technologies to exploit offshore fish stocks. As a result, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requires countries to sign partnership agreements with distant water fishing nations (DWFNs) to exploit offshore stocks. However, for migratory stocks, the offshore may serve as a natural marine reserve (i.e., a source) to the inshore (i.e., sink); hence these partnership agreements generate spatial externality. In this paper, we present a bioeconomic model in which a social planner uses a landing tax (ad valorem tax) to internalize this spatial externality. We found that the tax must reflect the biological connectivity between the two patches, intrinsic growth rate, the price of fish, cost per unit effort and social discount rate. The results are empirically illustrated using data on Ghana.

Keywords: Spatial fishery management; ad valorem tax; exclusive economic zone; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N57 Q22 Q28 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2011-02-24
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