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ToolsPouso, Sarai, Ferrini, Silvia, Turner, Kerry, Borja, Angel and Uyarra, María C. (2020) Monetary valuation of recreational fishing in a restored estuary and implications for future management measures. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77 (6). 2295–2303. ISSN 1054-3139
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Abstract
Recreational fishing is considered a cultural ecosystem service, important in terms of the socio-economic benefits that it provides. In the Nerbioi estuary (northern Spain), investments in water treatment and the closure of polluting industries have led to several benefits such as improvements in water quality, fish abundance and richness, and recreational fishing activity. Currently, this activity is performed along the whole estuary including areas that previously were severely polluted. Valuing the benefits of recreational fishing is crucial to support the management of the estuary. The economic valuation is performed using a multi-site travel cost analysis. In addition, the effect on welfare measures of future scenarios where environmental conditions and accessibility change is analysed. Results indicate that each recreational trip in Nerbioi has a use value of 14.98€, with an aggregate value of 1.12 M€year−1 for the whole recreational fishers’ community. The simulated scenarios suggest that further environmental improvements would have a positive effect in the activity, increasing the current welfare by 7.5–11.5%. In contrast, worsening of environmental conditions and accessibility could translate into a welfare reduction up to 71%. The monetary use value of recreational fishing partially covers (4.7%) the costs of maintaining the environmental quality of the estuary.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | economic valuation,ecosystem services recovery,random utility models,recreational fishing,travel cost,oceanography,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,aquatic science,ecology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1910 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2019 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 05:05 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/71848 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/icesjms/fsz091 |
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