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The Importance of
‘Maximum Economic Yield’ in Fisheries Management
Tom Kompas
Crawford School of Economics and Government
Australian National University
Co-authors: Quentin Grafton, Nhu Che, Long Chu, Ray Hilborn Acknowledgements: AusAID, FRRF/DAFF, FRDC, ACIAR
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Maximum Economic Yield (MEY)
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The Right Target: Maximum Economic Yield (MEY)
• MSY: A sustainable harvest level that maximizes
revenue from fishing, or generates the largest value of sustainable catch in numbers or kilograms.
• MEY: A sustainable catch or effort level that creates the
largest difference between (discounted) total revenues and the total costs of fishing.
• For profits to be maximized it must also be the case that the fishery applies a level of capital and other resources in combinations that minimize the costs of harvesting at the MEY catch level.
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Why MEY as a target? • Maximizes fishery profits, regardless of changes in the price
of fish or cost of fishing (MSY, by contrast, is independent of profits).
• Improves international competitiveness. • Provides resilience to economic shocks.
• ‘Conservationist’: in most cases stock size is larger than that associated with MSY, generating a ‘win-win’ outcome.
• Provides added resilience and other environmental benefits.
• Proper resource allocation (when combined with the right instrument, e.g., ITQs).
• Prevents over-capitalization, falling incomes/asset values and expensive ‘adjustment’ programs.
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Importance of the ‘stock effect’ • Why should stocks be ‘thick’?
• Lowers the cost of fishing: larger stocks lower the per unit cost of catch.
• Lower catch rates increase the market value of fish, and thus profitability.
• Counter-concerns: • Lower harvest means less fishing activity and
employment. • Transition to MEY requires even lower harvests (than
harvest at MEY), in order to rebuild stocks. • Fleet structural changes.
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Bioeconomic Model (basic structure)
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subject to
( )ds G s hdt
= − and 1 2h qE sγ γ=
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Western and Central Pacific Tuna
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WCPO Tuna Fishery
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Western & Central Pacific Tuna
• Four key species (skipjack, yellowfin, bigeye and albacore) and multiple fleets.
• One of world’s biggest fisheries — 2.2 million metric tonnes harvest/year with gross value of production of $US 3 billion.
• Evidence that fishery is being mismanaged with economic overfishing of bigeye and yellowfin tuna.
• Evidence of biological overfishing of bigeye.
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Harvests 1960-2006
Average annual growth rate in total harvest: 5%; in effort: 10%.
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Dynamic BMEY: WCP bigeye tuna
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Dynamic BMEY: WCP yellowfin tuna
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Western and Central Pacific Tunas
Source: Kompas, Grafton and Che (2010)
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Yellowfin Tuna Stocks
Bigeye Tuna Stocks
Stocks of Tuna under MEY and BAU
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Net Present Value BMEY and BAU Paths
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Results: Rent Drain
• BMEY would generate a net present value of $5.4 billion (50 years at 5% discount rate) — at least $3.4 billion more than Business as Usual (with sensitivity to parameter values: gains of$1.9 to $4.8 billion).
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Employment Effects
BMEY estimates: 3.4 billion Gain per job lost: 158,000 USD
Per capita income in PICs: less than $10,000 per year Note: long-term employment effects with BAU
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So, why has an MEY target not been adopted in the Pacific?
• Troublesome distribution of benefits across countries and time?
• Period of stock-rebuilding and lower profits? • Transitional costs without ‘buy in’, or no secure
property rights to future gains? • Needs both an instrument and a target first? • Fish-mining a preferred outcome?
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Concluding Remarks: WCPO fishery
• Results provide both an economic and a biological justification for reducing current fishing effort and increasing biomass levels of all tunas in this fishery.
• Higher future profits can also be used to fully compensate fishers for initially lower harvests and provide ‘side payments’ to fleets and countries to move to BMEY.
• Business as usual will cost WCPO tuna fisheries billions of dollars and will jeopardise the sustainability of yellowfin and bigeye tuna stocks.
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Concluding Remarks: MEY • Economics of overexploitation revisited indicates a
‘win-win’ — for many fisheries larger fish stocks generate higher fisher profits.
• Important to estimate harvest or cost functions rather than assume linear relationship between CPUE and biomass when determining Dynamic BMEY target.
• Presumption that high discount rate and low growth rate always implies optimal extinction is false.
• Dynamic BMEY with instruments/incentives may help overcome economic overexploitation in many of the world’s fisheries.