Where the Land Meets the Sea: Integrated Sustainable Fisheries Development and Artisanal Fishing

Squires, Dale; Grafton, R. Quentin; Alam, Mohammed Ferdous; Omar, Ishak Haji

doi:10.2139/ssrn.145810

Where the Land Meets the Sea: Integrated Sustainable Fisheries Development and Artisanal Fishing

University of California at San Diego, Department of Economics Discussion Paper 98-26

37 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 1999

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Dale Squires

Government of the United States of America - National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries Service)

R. Quentin Grafton

Australian National University (ANU) - Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES); Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy

Ishak Haji Omar

Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM)

Date Written: October 1998

Abstract

Artisanal fishing communities include some of the "poorest of the poor". In the past 40 years, strategies that have targeted the harvesting sector of such communities have often failed to address their chronic problems of poverty. Using data from gill net fishers in Malaysia, the paper presents the first technical efficiency study of an artisanal fishery and finds that artisanal fishers are poor but technically efficient. The results from the study and the experiences of other artisanal fisheries are used to advance a development strategy for artisanal fisheries called integrated sustainable fisheries development (ISFD).

JEL Classification: O13, Q22

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Squires, Dale and Grafton, R. Quentin and Alam, Mohammed Ferdous and Omar, Ishak Haji, Where the Land Meets the Sea: Integrated Sustainable Fisheries Development and Artisanal Fishing (October 1998). University of California at San Diego, Department of Economics Discussion Paper 98-26. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=145810 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.145810