Differences of Profitability Within a Multi-species Multi-gear Multi-area Fishery: How much is explained by barriers to entry?
2001
Le Gallic, Bertrand
The fishing activities within the English Channel may be regarded as various components of one large multispeciesmulti-gear multi-area fishery. As a result of a bioeconomic analysis of this fishery, significant differences inprofitability between activities were outlined. According to industrial economics, such differences may be regarded as theresult of barriers to entry limiting the access to the most profitable activities. The aim of this paper is to determine whichpart of the differences of profitability outlined in the survey can be explained by usual barriers to entry (geographical,technical, institutional, informational), and which part should be attributed to other factors, such as non monetaryarguments of the utility function of producers. It is based on a socio-economic survey of 160 French fishermen. The interestof this analysis is both theoretical and practical: on one side, it intends to provide some new evidence in the debateconcerning the economic rationality of fishermen; on the other side, it helps to identify the range of remote constraintsfishery management has to cope with.
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