International Agreements in the Multispecies Baltic Sea Fisheries

Nieminen, Emmi; Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk; Lindroos, Marko

doi:10.1007/s10640-015-9933-x

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“…The economic parameters of the model were obtained from the literature. Following Nieminen et al (2016), the species' prices, p i,j , are constant over time and asymmetrical for the countries. Here, i is country and j is the species, discount rates for each country is constant over time, r i , were applied from Nieminen et al (2016) and c i is the cost parameters (constant over time) for each species.…”

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“…One instrument to provide flexibility for such conflicts is side payments that prevent the losses generated by the inequality raised by these shifts (induced mainly by climate change) (Miller and Munro, 2004). Previously, single-species game theoretic studies (e.g., Diekert et al, 2010;Bjørndal and Lindroos, 2012;Kulmala et al, 2013) and multispecies game theoretic models have been utilized for various fisheries management issues concerning climatic and other environmental variations in the literature (Nieminen et al, 2012(Nieminen et al, , 2016.…”

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“…The EU fishing nations in the Baltic Sea jointly agree on an annual total allowable catch (TAC) for each commercially important stock. The TACs are shared among participating nations considering the relative stability principle that determines harvest quotas based on historical catch records of the EU member states whereas, the nationwide TAC is shared among fishermen according to country specific rules (Nieminen et al, 2016). Denmark, Poland, and Sweden have been the dominant cod (Gadus morhua callarias) fishing nations in the Baltic Sea for the last two decades.…”

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“…They found that lower fishing mortality would result in higher economic input whereas, under a high salinity scenario, cod stock achieved better levels of recruitment. Nieminen et al (2016) investigated a multispecies partition function game among three asymmetric nations bordering the Baltic Sea. They showed that the full cooperation among three nations can be stabilized if the dominant nation compensates the other nations.…”

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Cooperative Fisheries Outperform Non-cooperative Ones in the Baltic Sea Under Different Climate Scenarios

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Game theory has been an effective tool to generate solutions for decision making in fisheries involving multiple countries and fleets. Here, we use a coupled bio-economic model based on a Baltic Sea dynamic multispecies food web model called BALMAR and, we compare non-cooperative (NC) and cooperative game (grand coalition: GC) solutions. Applications of game theory based on a food web model under climate change have not been studied before and the present study aims to fill this gap in the literature. The study focuses on the effects of climate variability on the biological, harvest and economic output of the game models by examining two different climate scenarios, a first scenario characterized by low temperature and high salinity and a second scenario by high temperature and low salinity. Our results showed that in the first scenario sprat spawning stock biomass (SSB) and harvest dropped dramatically both in the NC and the GC cases whereas, herring and cod SSBs and harvests were higher compared to a base scenario (BS) keeping temperature and salinity at mean historical levels. In the second scenario, the sprat SSB and the harvest was higher for both GC and NC cases while the cod and the herring SSBs and harvests were lower. The total GC payoffs clearly outperformed the NC payoffs across all scenarios. Likewise, the first and second scenario GC payoffs for countries were higher except for Poland. The findings suggested the climate vulnerability of Baltic Sea multi-species fisheries and these results would support future decision-making processes of Baltic Sea fisheries.

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“…A precondition for no-lose targets to make a meaningful contribution to global emission reduction are ambitious reduction targets for Annex I countries. Nieminen et al (2016) is the last paper in the first group of papers on international agreements. They consider a dynamic partition function game between Denmark, Poland and Sweden as neighbouring states in the Baltic Sea.…”

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