On the influence of environmental factors on harvest: the French Guiana shrimp fishery paradox

Nicolas Sanz, Bassirou Diop (), Fabian Blanchard and Luis Lampert
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Nicolas Sanz: LEEISA - Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systèmes amazoniens - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UG - Université de Guyane - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bassirou Diop: LEEISA - Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systèmes amazoniens - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UG - Université de Guyane - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fabian Blanchard: LEEISA - Laboratoire Ecologie, Evolution, Interactions des Systèmes amazoniens - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UG - Université de Guyane - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Luis Lampert: DYNECO - Unité Dynamiques des Écosystèmes Côtiers - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the environmental nature of the French Guiana shrimp fishery dynamics through an empirical analysis. To do so, we specify a global harvest production function, in which the output depends on the number of days at sea and the stock level. In addition, we use some environmental variables representing the 'El Niño' and 'la Niña' phenomena, the sea surface temperature, and the flow of some Amazonian rivers as instruments. This method enables us to correct the well-known simultaneous bias between the harvest and the stock levels and to show that harvest is significantly dependent on the environmental factors analyzed, which may compromise the future of the French Guiana shrimp fishery in the context of climate change.

Keywords: Amazonian rivers; La Niña; El Niño; Harvest production function; Fisheries; Fisheries Harvest production function El Niño La Niña Amazonian rivers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04-21
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Published in Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2016, 19 (2), pp.233 - 247. ⟨10.1007/s10018-016-0153-6⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s10018-016-0153-6

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