PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ruijs, Arjan
AU  - Janmaat, Johannus A.
ED  - Ussif Rashid, Sumaila
ED  - Munro, Gordon R.
ED  - Sutinen, Jon G.
TI  - Chasing the Spillovers: Locating Protected Areas in a Trans-Boundary Fishery
AID  - 10.3368/le.83.1.6
DP  - 2007 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 6--22
VI  - 83
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/83/1/6.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/83/1/6.full
SO  - Land Econ2007 Feb 01; 83
AB  - Marine protected areas (MPAs) can positively impact upon marine biodiversity and fisheries returns. Increased fish densities inside MPAs can positively affect catches outside these areas. We examine MPA placement in a transboundary fishery when nations are, and are not, cooperative. We apply a differential game using a bioeconomic model to analyze behavior in MPA placement and effects on effort and biomass in two nations if both nations implement an MPA. Absence of cooperation can result in a prisoners’ dilemma in MPA placement. Strategic interactions lead to a divergence between socially or ecologically optimal MPAs and those chosen by national governments. (JEL: Q22)