Generating Value in Habitat-Dependent Fisheries: The Importance of Fishery Management Institutions
研究北卡罗来纳州蓝蟹渔业中改善栖息地带来的动态生产者和消费者收益，比较开放准入和部分理性化两种管理机制下的差异，发现理性化渔业的收益更高，但改善环境的总收益小于渔业理性化本身的收益。
<i>This paper models dynamic producer and consumer benefits from improving habitat that supports the North Carolina blue crab fishery. It embeds two fishery management institutions—open access and partial rationalization—in a multispecies, two-patch spatial bioeconomic model with endogenous output price and estuarine eutrophication. Producer benefits from improved environmental quality are higher for the rationalized fishery than for open access. Consumer benefits are larger than producer benefits and are comparable across institutions. However, the total benefits from improving environmental quality are small relative to the benefits from rationalizing the fishery and leaving environmental quality the same.</i>