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  • On the Determinants of Denouncing Illegal Fishing: A Field Study in Artisanal Fishing Communities

    Author(s)
    Cavalcanti, Carina
    Griffith University Author(s)
    De Araujo Cavalcanti, Carina
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    Many artisanal fishing communities struggle with overfishing. One potential channel to mitigate overfishing is through self-monitoring and denouncing of illegal fishing practices. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of fishermen’s willingness to report the catching of illegally small fish at a lake in Brazil. By using laboratory experiments and surveys, we provide novel evidence that impatience and pro-sociality play key roles. Fishermen who are more impatient in a laboratory inter-temporal choice experiment show a higher propensity to report misbehavior from other fishermen. This finding suggests that impatience ...
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    Many artisanal fishing communities struggle with overfishing. One potential channel to mitigate overfishing is through self-monitoring and denouncing of illegal fishing practices. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of fishermen’s willingness to report the catching of illegally small fish at a lake in Brazil. By using laboratory experiments and surveys, we provide novel evidence that impatience and pro-sociality play key roles. Fishermen who are more impatient in a laboratory inter-temporal choice experiment show a higher propensity to report misbehavior from other fishermen. This finding suggests that impatience is a driver for the punishment of resource exploitation. Moreover, we find that fishermen who are more pro-social in a laboratory public goods experiment are also more likely to report overfishing, suggesting that both time and social preferences are related to the reporting of resource overexploitation.
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    Journal Title
    Environmental and Resource Economics
    Volume
    77
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00471-8
    Subject
    Fisheries sciences
    Applied economics
    Other economics
    Behavioural economics
    Social Sciences
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Economics
    Environmental Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/399081
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