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Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Aquatic Sciences
Journal title
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
Two qualitative choice models of the location decisions of U.S. purse-seine
vessels operating in a total of sixty-five 5 degrees grids in the western
Pacific tuna fishery are developed and compared. A nested legit model in wh
ich decisions are first made about where to fish in the east-west plane, fo
llowed by a choice of grid in the north-south plane, performs better than a
nonnested model in which all grids are considered simultaneously. The nest
ed model can be used for the allocation of purse-seine fishery effort in a
spatially disaggregated bioeconomic model of the regional tuna fishery.