Fishing access agreements and harvesting decisions of host and distant water fishing nations |
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| Institution: | 1. Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 84, Hobart 7001, TAS, Australia;2. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Taroona 7001, TAS, Australia;1. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, USA;2. U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, 180 E. Green St., Athens, GA 30602, USA;3. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and James Madison College 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.;4. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and Lyman Briggs College. 919 E. Shaw Lane, Holmes Hall, East Lansing, MI 48825, USA;1. Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, TAS, Australia;2. Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, TAS, Australia;3. Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, ACT, Australia;4. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pattimura, Indonesia;5. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, TAS, Australia;1. Centre de Droit Economique et du Développement CDED EA 4216, équipe CERTAP Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Transformations de l’Action Publique de l’Université de Perpignan Via Domitia UPVD, 52 avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France;2. Unité Mixte de Recherches Marine Biology and Conservation MARBEC 248, IRD/IFREMER/UM2/CNRS19 avenue Jean Monnet, CS 30171, 34203 Sète Cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | The declaration of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) granted coastal states sovereign rights over the marine resources in their EEZs and enabled developing coastal states to legally charge access fees to distant water fishing (DWF) nations for access to the resources in these waters. Despite the potential for economic gains, however, the ability of coastal states to benefit from the granting of sovereign rights and to ensure the sustainable use of their fisheries resources depends on how domestic fishing effort responds to the harvesting decisions of the DWF nations. We develop a stylized bioeconomic model to explore the change in fishing behavior of host and DWF nations when the two nations enter into an access agreement with varying levels of access fee. We further conduct an econometric analysis of changes in Pacific island nations’ harvesting behavior in response to the harvest decisions of DWF nations using data from the Western and Central Pacific tuna fishery. Our model results show that there is a range of variable access payment levels over which the host nation substitutes benefits from its domestic fishing activity with access payments from the DWF nation and that setting fees in this range can create a trap whereby host nations are forced to trade-off receiving a fair return to their fishery resources through access fees and retaining their own active fleet capacity. Our empirical analysis further shows a gradual shift in the way in which Pacific island host nations responded to the harvest decision of DWF nations as a result of the creation of the 200-nautical-mile EEZ. |
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| Keywords: | Fisheries Access agreements Tuna Pacific island nations Distant water fishing nations |
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