[Coral-List] Fwd: New Publication: Coupled Behavior-Economic Modeling for a small-scale reef fishery

[Liam Carr]

Coral Reef Colleagues,

We'd like to share our new
publication<https://www.academia.edu/6896510/Using_a_coupled_behavior-economic_model_to_reduce_uncertainty_and_assess_fishery_management_in_a_data-limited_small-scale_fishery>in
Ecological Economics, which may be of interest to many on this
listserv:

Using a coupled behavior-economic model to reduce uncertainty and assess
fishery management in a data-limited, small-scale
fishery<https://www.academia.edu/6896510/Using_a_coupled_behavior-economic_model_to_reduce_uncertainty_and_assess_fishery_management_in_a_data-limited_small-scale_fishery>
 Abstract
This paper examines how fishers' ecological knowledge (FEK) and the
analysis of their decision-making process can be used to help managers
anticipate fisher behavior and thus be able to efficiently allocate scarce
resources for monitoring and enforcement. To examine determinants of fisher
behaviors, this study develops a coupled behavior-economic model examining
how physical, market, and regulatory forces affect commercial fishers'
choice of fishing grounds in a small-scale fishery (SSF) in St. Croix, U.S.
Virgin Islands. The model estimates that fishing operations land $396 ± 110
per trip (mean ± 1 SD; n = 427 trips), with the highest value in landings
arriving from Lang Bank. The model explains 62% of the variation in
fishers' choice to fish at Lang Bank, the most productive, yet farthest
fishing grounds. The coupled behavioral economic model is focused on the
small temporal and spatial scales of fishing effort and FEK in an SSF.
Therefore the model can be used to predict how a range of physical and
regulatory conditions and changes in demand will drive overall (fleet)
fishing effort allocation in space and time. By illustrating and
quantifying these social–ecological causes and effects, the model can
assist managers to efficiently allocate limited monitoring and enforcement
resources.

Feel free to contact Liam <liam.carr at aya.yale.edu> if you have trouble
accessing the paper at academia.edu.

Cheers,

Liam Carr
Will Heyman

https://www.academia.edu/6896510/Using_a_coupled_behavior-economic_model_to_reduce_uncertainty_and_assess_fishery_management_in_a_data-limited_small-scale_fishery

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Oh! never fly conceals a hook / fish say, in the Eternal Brook /
but more than mundane weeds are there / and mud, celestially fair /
fat caterpillars drift around / and paradisal grubs are found /
unfading moths, immortal flies / and the worm that never dies /
and in that Heaven of all their wish / there shall be no more land, say
fish.

~Rupert Brooke "Heaven" 1914~



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Oh! never fly conceals a hook / fish say, in the Eternal Brook /
but more than mundane weeds are there / and mud, celestially fair /
fat caterpillars drift around / and paradisal grubs are found /
unfading moths, immortal flies / and the worm that never dies /
and in that Heaven of all their wish / there shall be no more land, say
fish.

~Rupert Brooke "Heaven" 1914~