Conference presentation
An Evaluation of Fisheries Policies Available to Australia for the management of Southern Blue Fin Tuna Fishery
Curtin University of Technology
The Economic Society of Australia 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006 (Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia, 25/09/2006–27/09/2006)
2006
Abstract
In the absence of proper management, fishery resource tends to be exploited as a common property resource with a tendency towards over-exploitation. In the absence of appropriate property rights, the exploitation of a common property such as the fisheries may lead to over exploitation (and possible extinction of a species but not with migratory species such as the southern blue fin tuna) and externalities both contemporaneous and inter-generational. The paper aims to identify the various economic policy instruments that may be available and then uses a 'cubic' model to select the best model suitable for the blue fin tuna fishery. Price control is selected as the appropriate policy instrument, even though individual transferable catch quota is also a possibility. Price control is based on levying a tax on catches and is oriented towards economic efficiency.
Details
- Title
- An Evaluation of Fisheries Policies Available to Australia for the management of Southern Blue Fin Tuna Fishery
- Authors/Creators
- R. Sathiendrakumar (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- The Economic Society of Australia 35th Australian Conference of Economists 2006 (Curtin University of Technology, Perth Western Australia, 25/09/2006–27/09/2006)
- Publisher
- Curtin University of Technology
- Identifiers
- 991005541196607891
- Copyright
- Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Do not use- Former Murdoch Business School
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
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