Individual Transferable Quotas in the Baltic Sea Herring Fishery: a Sociobioeconomic Analysis

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Individual Transferable Quotas in the Baltic Sea
Herring Fishery a Socio-bioeconomic Analysis

• Soile Kulmala, Hanna Peltomäki, Marko Lindroos,
  Sakari Kuikka Pirkko Söderkultalahti

Workshop on New Developments in Rights Based
Fisheries Management Community Fishing
Rights 29-30th August, University of Southern
Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark
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Structure of the talk

• Background
• Bioeconomic model and results
• Fishermen interviews
• Conclusions

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Background

• Baltic herring is the most important species
• Fleet too big compared to TAC
• Fishing time restrictions
• Declining herring stock
• Poor economic performance
• Fishermen recall for fishery policy change

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Objective of present study

• Find out the possible economic, biological and
  social effects of ITQs
• Bioeconomic analysis
• Fishermen interviews

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Bioeconomic model
Age-structured population dynamics
Current State TAC/IQ
FOOD
FODDER

• Fishing costs
• Herring price
• CPUE

Future ? ITQ
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Bioeconomic Model
ITQ
IQ

• 18 food trawlers
• 204 fodder trawlers
• Catch proportion
• Historical catches

• Grandfathering
• Catch proportion
• 55 food
• 45 fodder
• Quota trade within segments
• 5 food trawlers
• 51 fodder trawlers

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Modelling results
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Modelling results
Herring catch
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Modelling results
Spawning stock biomass
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Modelling results
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Fishermen interview

• IQs better than current management system
• Increasing profitability
• No capital interest (saving fish)
• Vessel quota
• Only for professional fishermen
• Grandfathering
• Historical catches
• Transferability
• Flexibility
• Market speculations
• Concentration

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Conclusion

• Improving economic performance
• Greater herring stock
• Fishermen support
• Economic advice more concervative than biological
• No effect on fishery policy

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Thank you for your attention

• soile.kulmala_at_helsinki.fi
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