Essays on the Economics of Migratory Fish Stocks

This publication contains ten essays dealing with the economics of harvesting from migratory fish stocks. The characteristics of optimal harvesting paths for migratory species are examined. The book also contains a number of case studies of actual migratory fisheries.

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This publication contains ten essays written by prominent natural resource economists and mathematicians on the economics of harvesting from migratory fish stocks. Five of the essays deal with the analytical aspects of the subject. These essays are concerned with questions of optimal harvesting paths, stability and the specific problems that arise when fish migrations provide several nations with periodic exclusive access to the fish stock. The other five essays are empirical. They feature case studies of fisheries from actual migratory fish stocks. The publication provides a valuable introduction to an important subject that has been largely ignored in the fisheries economics literature. It describes the nature of the problem and derives several important results of a general nature.

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A. Theoretical Papers.- The Management of Transboundary Fishery Resources: A Theoretical Overview.- On the Optimal Harvesting of Migratory Species.- Maximizing Yield in Some Fluctuating Fisheries.- Optimal Exploitation of Migratory Fish Stocks: The Multiple Species Case.- A Stochastic Fisheries Problem with Seasonal Migrations.- B. Empirical Papers.- The Management of Migratory Fishery Resources in the Pacific: Tropical Tuna and Pacific Salmon.- MIGFISH: A Computer Programme for Studying the Harvesting Economics of Migratory Species.- The Optimal Management of a Transboundary Fish Resource: The Arcto-Norwegian Cod Stock.- Competition in Salmon Fisheries.- On Optimal Harvesting of Fluctuating Fish Stocks: The Case of the Arcto-Norwegian Cod.