The impact of ownership of fishing rights on professional fishing in Finnish lakes

Sipponen, M.

doi:10.1016/s0165-7836(97)00091-x

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“…In addition to fishing grounds, portfolio management might also include a portfolio of employment as wages and agriculture income substitute for fishery income during periods of weak stocks (Sipponen 1998; Sipponen et al. 1999).…”

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Interlocked use of inland fish resources: a new management strategy under private property rights

Sipponen¹,

Muje²,

Marjomäki³

et al. 2006

Fisheries Management Eco

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Interlocked use of multiple inland vendace, Coregonus albula (L.), stocks is a relatively new strategy to exploit asynchronous fluctuations in abundance of natural fish stocks between waterbodies. It combines vendace stocks from different lakes or parts of lakes into one interlocked stock to be managed across waterbody ownership boundaries. Management of interlocked stocks can be regarded as one form of portfolio management. Exploitation of interlocked stocks should reduce the interannual variation in yield, and thus ensuring fishers more constant income and the market more constant material flow. The strategy requires fishers to increase their mobility, to benefit from asynchronous fluctuations in abundance of vendace stocks between exploitable waters. A postal inquire addressed to Finnish commercial inland fishers examined whether existing property rights institutionsÕ and fishersÕ harvesting policies were appropriate to establish interlocked use of multiple vendace stocks. Almost half of fishers had, to some extent, reaped benefit from a fishing strategy that included small-scale mobility, which is consistent with the proposed strategy. By harvesting three or four lakes and stocks, fishers increased their yield compared with exploiting one fishing ground and one vendace stock. Public ownership provided fishers access to stocks nearer their place of residence than other ownership types. K E Y W O R D S : fisheries management, inland fisheries, interlocked use, portfolio management, property rights, vendace.

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Interlocked use of inland fish resources: a new management strategy under private property rights

Sipponen¹,

Muje²,

Marjomäki³

et al. 2006

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“…Because the size of vendace stocks is usually unknown, these decision-makers prefer to take a conservative attitude (e.g., Lane 1992) rather than encouraging fishing enterprises to increase their fishing efforts. Sipponen (1998) concluded that the allocation of fishing rights in the waters of fishing cooperatives is often suboptimal because fishing cooperatives favor their shareholders, who often are part-time fishermen and, as such, less-efficient than full-timers.…”

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The Adaptation of Professional Fishing to Diminished Vendace Stocks: The Case of Finnish Inland Waters

Sipponen

Niittykangas

Salo

1999

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

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The large number of lakes covering 10% of Finland's surface area provide an opportunity for both full-time and part-time professional fishing. However, the development of the fishing industry is hindered by unpredictable fluctuations in fish stocks, by the elaborate hierarchy of the fisheries system, as well as by certain features of Finnish professional fishing, such as the small size of fishing enterprises, the scattered pattern of production, and long transportation distances to the core demand areas. According to Finnish catch statistics, the stock of vendace Coregonus albula has clearly diminished since the mid 1980s. Our results show that full-time professional fishermen differ from part-time professional fishermen in their adaptation to diminished fish stocks: they increase their fishing efforts, they try to extend their fishing grounds, and they switch to or supplement with a new species. Moreover, their desire to develop their fishing is stronger than that of part-time professional fishermen, and they can be regarded as active agents in the fishing industry. When a fishing enterprise has adequate access to fishing grounds and is allowed to use different kinds of gear effectively, it may develop and expand its operations (i.e., use its entrepreneurial capacity). An important policy implication of resource use would be to ensure the availability of fishing licenses to full-time professional fishermen, in the hope that the most active would also lead the continued development of inland professional fishing as a whole.

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“…The difficulty of obtaining fishing rights from statutory fishery associations has been regarded as one of the most important constraints on the development of fishing as a livelihood in Finnish lakes. The associations’ policy for issuing fishing licences supports less efficient part‐time fishermen instead of full‐time commercial fishermen (Sipponen 1998; Sipponen et al . 1999).…”

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The development of the Finnish inland fisheries system

Sipponen¹

2001

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The eciency of Finnish inland ®sheries administration has improved during the past 15 years because of changes in ®sheries legislation. The establishment of regional management units particularly has improved the practice of co-management, which has allowed the participation of many relevant interest groups in the decision-making process. The long-term private market equilibrium supply for recreational ®shing with active types of gear accounted for 50% of the Finnish lake surface area. Presently the public sector has become involved in the supply of recreational ®shing licences. The improvement in the system owes much to political initiatives. As regards commercial ®shing, state-ownership of ®shing grounds is a channel for recruitment into the occupation. Private ownership has led to a suboptimal allocation of ®sheries resources, particularly in the commercial branch of the industry. However, by giving priority to social instead of economic goals the statutory ®shery associations will help to maintain social and community values, which are locally important. K E Y W O R D S : co-management, ®sheries organizations, inland ®sheries, legislation, management regimes.

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The impact of ownership of fishing rights on professional fishing in Finnish lakes

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Interlocked use of inland fish resources: a new management strategy under private property rights

Interlocked use of inland fish resources: a new management strategy under private property rights

The Adaptation of Professional Fishing to Diminished Vendace Stocks: The Case of Finnish Inland Waters

The development of the Finnish inland fisheries system

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