Enjoying Catch and Fishing Effort: The Effort Effect in Recreational Fisheries

Max Stoeven

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2014, vol. 57, issue 3, 393-404

Abstract: Recreational fishermen derive utility from catch and fishing effort. Building our analysis on the Gordon-Clark model for renewable resources, we show that a lower importance of catch may result in higher catches. While this effect also holds under first-best management, it may destabilize open-access recreational fisheries to the point of stock collapse. Technical progress in recreational fisheries may mask such dynamics as it enables unaltered angler behavior and constant catches during stock declines. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Recreational fishing; Angling; Importance of catch; Collapse; Overfishing; Q22; Q26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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