Alaska’s Sablefish Fishery after Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program Implementation: an International Economic Market Model

Autor: Stephanie Warpinski, Keith R. Criddle, Mark Herrmann, Joshua Greenberg
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 36:864-875
ISSN: 1548-8675
0275-5947
DOI: 10.1080/02755947.2016.1165766
Popis: Alaska is the world’s principal supplier of Sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria, a buttery-flavored whitefish greatly prized in Japan. Sablefish are distributed from Baja California to western Japan, but the majority of commercial catches are from the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands off Alaska. The volume and value of landings of this long-lived demersal fish are comparable to those of the well-known Pacific Halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis. As with Pacific Halibut, Alaska region catches of Sablefish are managed under an individual fishing quota (IFQ) program implemented in 1995. We present a simultaneous-equation market model for Sablefish and use it to examine the linkages between landings volume and exvessel prices and revenues, including the sensitivity of Alaska exvessel prices and revenues to changes in landings, the implementation of IFQs, and changes in the Japanese economy. The model simulations indicate that markets could absorb substantially more Sablefish than can be sustainably harves...
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