Acronym BESTEMT
Category
Fisheries
Title Biological and Economic STrategies for sustainable Ecosystem-services and ManagemenT Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Stein Ivar Steinshamn Coordinator email stein.steinshamn@nhh.no
Coordinator institution
SNF - Society and business research AS (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2021 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 1,200,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/324159?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=60<P.1=LTP2+Hav&source=FORISS&projectId=317768 Summary The project aims at applying an ecosystem model to evaluate the environmental and distributional effects of various management instruments such as total and individual quotas and vessel specific taxes among other tools. Emission quotas and emission fees will be among the instruments we analyze. Thereby we address existing research gaps by integrating environmental and ecosystem information into our assessment of the tools. This includes fleet heterogeneity, multi-species management, trophic interactions, ecological indicators, and fisher behavior together with markets interactions.
The model we plan to use, RESRENT2, is based on the existing RESRENT developed for the Ministry of Fisheries in 2005. The original purpose of this model was to find optimal size and structure of the Norwegian fishing fleet together with the optimal allocation of fish quotas over different vessel groups. In this project, we plan to include a number of new features, and thereby design RESRENT 2. The most comprehensive new features are population dynamics for the species included in the model and financial instruments in addition to harvest quotas.
In addition to direct taxation of the resource rent, there are tax instruments that may achieve double dividend. For example, implementing emission taxes for the fishing sector will have positive environmental effects in addition to collecting at least part of the rent.
Another interesting aspect of financial instruments such as taxes, is to apply them as tools for structuring the fleet. Such taxes may reduce overcapacity, improve the fleet composition and at the same time contribute to rent capture. As far as we know, this way of using financial instruments has received little or no attention in the literature, and a thorough analysis of this will be an important novel contribution to the literature.
Keywords
Fishery policy;
Fisheries management;
Economy;
Marine Region
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Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
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