Open access in a spatially delineated artisanal fishery: The case of Minahasa, Indonesia

Kramer, Randall A; Liese, C; Smith, Martin D

doi:10.1017/S1355770X06003421

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The effects of economic development on the exploitation of renewable resources are investigated in settings where property rights are ill defined or not enforced. This paper explores potential conservation implications from labor and product market developments, such as enhanced transportation infrastructure. A model is developed that predicts individual fish catch per unit effort based on characteristics of individual fishermen and the development status of their villages. The econometric model is estimated using data from a cross-sectional household survey of artisanal coral reef fishermen in Minahasa, Indonesia, taking account of fishermen heterogeneity. Variation across different villages and across fishermen within the villages is used to explore the effects of development. Strong evidence is found for the countervailing forces of product and labor market effects on the exploitation of a coral reef fishery. © 2007 Cambridge University Press.

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Kramer, Randall A; Liese, C; & Smith, Martin D (2007). Open access in a spatially delineated artisanal fishery: The case of Minahasa, Indonesia. Environment and Development Economics, 12(1). pp. 123-143. 10.1017/S1355770X06003421. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/6744.

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Randall Kramer

Juli Plant Grainger Professor of Global Environmental Health

Randall Kramer is the Juli Plant Grainger Professor of Global Environmental Health in the Nicholas School of the Environment and deputy director of the Duke Global Health Institute. Before coming to Duke in 1988, he was on the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has held visiting positions at IUCN--The World Conservation Union, the Economic Growth Center at Yale University, and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry. He has served as a consultant to t

Martin D. Smith

Professor of Environmental Economics in the

Smith studies the economics of the oceans, including fisheries, marine ecosystems, seafood markets, and coastal climate adaptation. He has written on a range of policy-relevant topics, including economics of marine reserves, seasonal closures in fisheries, ecosystem-based management, catch shares, nutrient pollution, aquaculture, genetically modified foods, the global seafood trade, organic agriculture, coastal property markets, and coastal responses to climate change. He is best known for id

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