A glance into the willingness to reduce overfishing: Field evidence from a fishnet exchange program

Carina Cavalcanti and Andreas Leibbrandt

No 09-17, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the actual willingness to reduce overfishing in a fishnet exchange program implemented in Brazilian fishing villages. Fishermen who use fishnets with small mesh sizes were invited to an auction where they could bid negative or positive amounts to exchange their fishnet for a fishnet with a bigger mesh size. We observe that the majority of fishermen are willing to exchange their fishnets without further compensation. In addition, we observe that environmental perceptions and experiences with fishnets help explaining the heterogeneity in bids. Fishermen who are more optimistic that local overfishing can be stopped and who have already used fishnets with larger mesh sizes place significantly higher bids. These findings may provide useful information about the limitations and possibilities of changing the behavior of individuals who strongly exploit resources.

Keywords: auction; common pool resources; fishing; resource exploitation; willingness to change. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2017-04
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