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Excess capacity and sustainable development in Java Sea fisheries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2003

Dale Squires ,
Ishak Haji Omar ,
Yongil Jeon ,
James Kirkley ,
K. Kuperan  and
Indah Susilowati
Dale Squires
Affiliation:
US National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, PO Box 271, La Jolla, CA 92038-0271 USA. Fax: 001-858-546-7003. Tel: 001-858-546-7113. E-mail: dsquires@ucsd.edu
Ishak Haji Omar
Affiliation:
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Yongil Jeon
Affiliation:
Central Michigan University
James Kirkley
Affiliation:
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences
K. Kuperan
Affiliation:
Interrnational Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) Universiti Putra Malaysia
Indah Susilowati
Affiliation:
Diponegoro University, Indonesia
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Abstract

Excess capacity and overfishing are problems in the open-access, common-pool fisheries of the Java Sea. Data development analysis is used to estimate excess fishing capacity and the number of vessels to decommission in three Java Sea fisheries of Indonesia, the purse seine, mini purse seine, and longline. First- and second-best policy measures are discussed to reduce the excess capacity and give sustainable management and development. The importance of incentive design, asymmetric information, and the regulator's principal–agent problem are emphasized in license limitation programs.

Type
Theory and Applications
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , February 2003 , pp. 105 - 127
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The authors are grateful to participants for discussions from the 1998 La Jolla FAO Technical Working Group on the Management of Fishing Capacity, the 1999 Mexico City FAO Technical Consultation on the Measurement of Fishing Capacity, and the IIFET 2000 meetings, and insightful and exceedingly helpful comments of three anonymous referees.