Impact of two of the world's largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates.
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SUBMITTER: Lynham J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7033108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
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Impact of two of the world's largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates.
Lynham John J Nikolaev Anton A Raynor Jennifer J Vilela Thaís T Villaseñor-Derbez Juan Carlos JC
Nature communications 20200220 1
Two of the largest protected areas on earth are U.S. National Monuments in the Pacific Ocean. Numerous claims have been made about the impacts of these protected areas on the fishing industry, but there has been no ex post empirical evaluation of their effects. We use administrative data documenting individual fishing events to evaluate the economic impact of the expansion of these two monuments on the Hawaii longline fishing fleet. Surprisingly, catch and catch-per-unit-effort are higher since ...[more]
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