A Bioeconomic Model of Marine Reserve Creation |
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Authors: | James N Sanchirico James E Wilen |
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Institution: | a Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036;b Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California, 95616 |
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Abstract: | This paper employs a dynamic and spatial model of renewable resource exploitation to investigate the effects of marine reserve creation. The model combines a metapopulation model incorporating resource patch heterogeneity and dispersal with a behaviorally based spatially explicit harvesting model that assumes that fishermen choose location in a manner that eliminates spatial arbitrage opportunities. The combined spatial bioeconomic model is used to simulate the effects of reserve creation under various ecological structures. We identify parameter configurations and ecological dispersal processes that give rise to a double-payoff in which both aggregate biomass and harvest increase after an area of the fishery is set aside and protected from exploitation. |
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Keywords: | renewable resources fisheries marine reserves |
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