Publikationsdatum:
2019-09-23
Beschreibung:
Fish stocks can be considered as natural capital stocks providing harvestable fish. Fishing at low stock sizes means borrowing from the natural asset. While fishing a particular quantity generates immediate profits and income, an interest rate has to be paid in terms of foregone future fishing income, as the fish stock's reproductive capacity remains low and fishing costs stay high. In this paper we propose to apply the concept of shadowinterest rate to quantify the degree of overfishing. It incorporates the relevant biological and economic information and compares across fish stocks.We calculate the shadow interest rates for 13major European fish stocks and find these rates to range from10% tomore than 200%. The concept of the shadow interest rate can be
used to make the economic consequences of overfishing transparent and to evaluate the profitability of shortterm catch reductions as investments in natural capital stocks.
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Article
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PeerReviewed
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
text
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.002
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