Catch Shares and Shoreside Processors: A Costs and Earnings Exploration into the Downstream Sector

Guldin, Marie; Anderson, Christopher M.

doi:10.1086/698200

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“…The focus on active vessels in fishery regulation creates severe biases in social and economic data collection. Concerted efforts are needed to develop longitudinal data collection programs for captains, crew, and processors ( 35 ), regardless of current participation, to mitigate this myopia. In many cases, developing these data will first require significant upgrades in reporting requirements for both employers and employees (e.g., crew license registries) to properly characterize and sample the relevant population.…”

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The distributional outcomes of rights-based management in fisheries

Abbott

Leonard

Garber-Yonts

2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Fisheries managers have increasingly adopted rights-based management (i.e., “catch shares” or “individual transferable quotas” [ITQs]) to address economic and biological management challenges under prior governance regimes. Despite their ability to resolve some of the symptoms of the tragedy of the commons and improve economic efficiency, catch shares remain controversial for their potentially disruptive social effects. One criticism is that the benefits of rights-based reforms are unequally distributed across vessels and between fishery participants (e.g., crew and hired captains) and that stakeholders that do not receive an allocation of harvest rights may see their remuneration decrease. Yet, empirically assessing these claims is difficult in almost all ITQs due to poor availability of longitudinal cost, earnings, and employment data. This paper evaluates these claims using vessel-level data to characterize impacts of a long-established ITQ program for Alaskan crab fisheries on the level and distribution of payments to claimant groups. We find that the share of vessel proceeds accruing to captains, crew, and vessel owners declined under the catch-share regime to make room for new payments to quota owners. Average daily payments to captains, crew, and vessel owners declined, albeit slightly, yet retained their pre-ITQ premia relative to compensation in other sectors. However, inequality in payments to workers and vessel owners declined after ITQs, as did the interseasonal volatility in compensation to workers, a measure of financial risk. Finally, we find that consolidation-induced increases in leasing costs have had little effect on workers’ remuneration, but have reduced returns to vessel ownership.

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The distributional outcomes of rights-based management in fisheries

Abbott

Leonard

Garber-Yonts

2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…While several West Coast groundfish stocks were rebuilt during the last two decades [40] and total allowable catches have been increasing [41], utilization of many species remains low [42], and much of the revenue generated from this fishery is now concentrated within fewer ports, primarily in Oregon (Fig 1E). These patterns coincide with declines in the number of fish buyers, reduced processing capacity, and increased spatial consolidation of processing, which in turn may impact the magnitude and distribution of fishing effort [37,43,44]. Together, these trends suggest that port-level bottom trawl groundfish fishing fleets (hereafter, groundfish fleets) are a useful set of fleets on which to focus because each is subject to the same regulations and market forces, operates within a similar geographic area, experiences environmentally-driven change in species' availability, and therefore shares common opportunities and challenges.…”

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Stay or go? Geographic variation in risks due to climate change for fishing fleets that adapt in-place or adapt on-the-move

Samhouri,

Feist,

Jacox

et al. 2024

PLOS Clim

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From fishers to farmers, people across the planet who rely directly upon natural resources for their livelihoods and well-being face extensive impacts from climate change. However, local- and regional-scale impacts and associated risks can vary geographically, and the implications for development of adaptation pathways that will be most effective for specific communities are underexplored. To improve this understanding at relevant local scales, we developed a coupled social-ecological approach to assess the risk posed to fishing fleets by climate change, applying it to a case study of groundfish fleets that are a cornerstone of fisheries along the U.S. West Coast. Based on the mean of three high-resolution climate projections, we found that more poleward fleets may experience twice as much local temperature change as equatorward fleets, and 3–4 times as much depth displacement of historical environmental conditions in their fishing grounds. Not only are they more highly exposed to climate change, but some poleward fleets are >10x more economically-dependent on groundfish. While we show clear regional differences in fleets’ flexibility to shift to new fisheries via fisheries diversification (‘adapt in-place’) or shift their fishing grounds in response to future change through greater mobility (‘adapt on-the-move’), these differences do not completely mitigate the greater exposure and economic dependence of more poleward fleets. Therefore, on the U.S. West Coast more poleward fishing fleets may be at greater overall risk due to climate change, in contrast to expectations for greater equatorward risk in other parts of the world. Through integration of climatic, ecological, and socio-economic data, this case study illustrates the potential for widespread implementation of risk assessment at scales relevant to fishers, communities, and decision makers. Such applications will help identify the greatest opportunities to mitigate climate risks through pathways that enhance flexibility and other dimensions of adaptive capacity.

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Economic gains from individual fishing quotas: The Norwegian coastal groundfish fisheries

Liu,

Pincinato,

Asche

et al. 2024

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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Many rights‐based systems in fisheries use individual fishing quotas (IFQs) that allocate shares of total allowable catch to individual fishers, vessels, or groups of fishers. We analyze the performance of IFQs in the Norwegian coastal groundfish fisheries that substantially limit transferability. We use data from two similar fishing groups that were treated with different management. Difference‐in‐differences results show that IFQs increase productivity and prices for some of the main groundfish species. Results suggest that expected productivity gains and price gains from first‐best rights‐based policies that create highly transferable IFQs can result from second‐best policies that substantially limit transferability.

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Catch Shares and Shoreside Processors: A Costs and Earnings Exploration into the Downstream Sector

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

The distributional outcomes of rights-based management in fisheries

The distributional outcomes of rights-based management in fisheries

Stay or go? Geographic variation in risks due to climate change for fishing fleets that adapt in-place or adapt on-the-move

Economic gains from individual fishing quotas: The Norwegian coastal groundfish fisheries

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