Habitat-Fishery Linkages and Mangrove Loss in Thailand.

The article develops a dynamic model of habitat-fishery linkage in which the habitat is being converted. The basic model is applied to a case study of the impacts of mangrove deforestation on the artisanal marine demersal and shellfish fisheries in Thailand. The comparative static effects of a chang...

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Published in:Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 59 - 78
Main Author: Barbier, Edward B.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell January 2003
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        Mangrove ecology
        Economic development
        Shrimp fisheries
        Fisheries & the environment
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          Thailand
          Mangrove ecology
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          Fisheries & the environment
      ab: The article develops a dynamic model of habitat-fishery linkage in which the habitat is being converted. The basic model is applied to a case study of the impacts of mangrove deforestation on the artisanal marine demersal and shellfish fisheries in Thailand. The comparative static effects of a change in mangrove area on the long-run equilibrium level of effort and fish stocks, as well as on the resulting market harvesting supply of the fishery, are determined. By estimating parameters through pooled time-series and cross-sectional data over the 1983-96 period for the five coastal zones along the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea, the welfare impacts of mangrove deforestation are estimated. Mangrove conversion is expected to be a function of the return to shrimp farming and the input costs to farming shrimp, plus exogenous economic factors. The resulting aggregate reduced-form level of mangrove clearing by all farmers in coastal areas is empirically estimated across the five coastal zones in Thailand over 1983-96. The policy implications of the findings are discussed with respect to Thailand and the modeling of habitat-fishery linkages. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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