Doctoral Dissertation: Examining the Theoretical Boundaries of Tradable Rights in Fisheries Management

博士论文：考察渔业管理中可交易权的理论界限

• 批准号: 0922479
• 负责人: Sherry Larkin
• 金额: $ 1.33万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Examining; Theoretical; Boundaries

Achievement of the economic and ecological goals of rights-based management programs in fisheries depends on trading activity and the ability of the market to facilitate trading, a market that is assumed to function on basic economic principles. These markets are unique in several ways, however, particularly in that each is tied to an unpredictable resource base, is initiated and structured by a variety of agencies with distinct protocols, and?in many cases?is affected by a deeply rooted social and cultural system among the fishermen. These factors ensure that such markets are inherently variable, contribute to the riskiness of the industry and complicate fishermen decisions. This study will use approaches from economics, exchange networks, and anthropology to examine the market for trap certificates, a program used to manage the Florida spiny lobster trap fishery, to evaluate the boundaries of the theoretical framework as applied to rights-based fisheries management. Historical transactions in a market for rights to operate in a commercial fishery in Florida will be used to test hypotheses regarding the functioning and development of markets over time. Augmenting the transactions data with information obtained from personal interviews of traders will allow for the examination of factors that are likely to explain trading activity that cannot be captured otherwise, including individual characteristics that are known to affect transactions costs and the development of social networks. Finally, GIS-based information on fishing habitat and market power will complete the set of explanatory factors for use in statistical and regression analysis.The study contributes to understanding the extent to which theories of market structure and function can be applied to tradable permit markets, specifically in commercial fisheries. This study provides an example of the utility of social network analysis to analyze market structure, a method not commonly used in fisheries studies but highly appropriate given the importance of social ties in fishing communities. The use of tradable instruments as management tools is increasing for all resources, not just fisheries, and the results of this study?by explicitly capturing spatial information on social networks and habitats in addition to individual characteristics?can prove crucial to the development of theoretically sound and effective programs. The results and policy recommendations will also be useful to the international fishing community as the use of transferable rights-based programs increases worldwide.

渔业基于权利的管理方案的经济和生态目标的实现取决于贸易活动和市场促进贸易的能力，市场应根据基本经济原则运作。然而，这些市场在几个方面都是独特的，特别是每个市场都与不可预测的资源基础联系在一起，是由具有不同协议的各种机构发起和组织的，以及？在许多情况下？受渔民根深蒂固的社会和文化制度的影响。这些因素使这些市场具有内在的可变性，增加了渔业的风险，并使渔民的决定复杂化。本研究将使用经济学，交流网络和人类学的方法来研究市场的陷阱证书，一个程序用于管理佛罗里达多刺龙虾陷阱渔业，以评估的边界的理论框架，适用于基于权利的渔业管理。在佛罗里达的商业渔业经营权市场的历史交易将被用来测试随着时间的推移市场的功能和发展的假设。通过对交易者进行个人访谈获得的信息来扩充交易数据，将有助于审查可能解释无法通过其他方式获得的交易活动的因素，包括已知影响交易成本和社交网络发展的个人特征。最后，基于地理信息系统的捕鱼栖息地和市场力量的信息将完成一套解释因素用于统计和回归analysis.The研究有助于了解市场结构和功能的理论可以在多大程度上适用于可交易的许可证市场，特别是在商业渔业。这项研究提供了一个例子，社会网络分析的效用，分析市场结构，渔业研究中不常用的方法，但非常适当的社会关系在渔业社区的重要性。作为管理工具的可交易工具的使用正在增加，不仅是渔业资源，而且这项研究的结果？通过明确地捕捉空间信息的社交网络和栖息地除了个人特征？可以证明是至关重要的发展理论上健全和有效的方案。研究结果和政策建议也将有助于国际渔业界，因为在世界范围内越来越多地使用基于可转让权利的方案。