A Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Construction and Applications

By U. R. Sumaila, A. Marsden, R. Watson, Daniel Pauly. 2007

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SynopsisWe describe the first effort at creating a global ex-vessel fish price database, which is required for understanding the economic behavior of participants in the world’s fisheries. We demonstrate potential applications of the database by linking it to a spatially defined catch database, which makes it possible to attach landed values to species in both time and space. This is the first database available publicly where interested members of the public, researchers and managers can easily find and access ex-vessel prices of the world’s major commercial fish species. Preliminary results indicate that the average real price of a number of species have declined between 1950 and 2002. The estimated landed value of fish globally, in year 2000 dollars, was about US$24 billion in 1950. It increased steadily to about US$90 billion in the early 1970s, reached a peak of US$100 billion at the end of the 1980s, and declined to about US$80 billion in 2000. The top 15 fishing countries cumulatively account for 79% of total real landed value, with Japan leading, even though the value of its landings has been declining.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Contributions by Women to Fisheries Economies: Insights from Five Maritime Countries (2017, background): “While some social and economic aspects of the fisheries in these countries have been highlighted (Cisneros-Montemayor et al. 2013; Dyck and Sumaila 2010; Sumaila et al. 2007), gender dimensions have received much less attention.”
Economic impact of ocean fish populations in the global fishery (2010, background): “... value of final demand for an economic activity’s output to obtain its total contribution to economic output including activities directly and indirectly dependent on it. Therefore, the importance of this industry to the economy may be understatedwhenconsideringonlythedirectvaluesobtainedthrought”
The global ocean is an ecosystem: simulating marine life and fisheries (2015, methodology): “Further, there were temporal differences in the series that may well be caused by not considering that prices vary differentially over time (Sumaila et al., 2007), and this will affect how fishers allocate effort between different target fish species (Salas et al., 2004).”
Climate change impacts on fisheries in West Africa: implications for economic, food and nutritional security (2012, methodology): “7 billion in the 2000s, using ex-vessel prices of each species in 2000 (Sumaila et al. 2007) and the average catch data from the Sea Around Us Project database.”
China's distant-water fisheries in the 21st century (2014, background): “4c), that is, nearly 14% of the estimated total ex-vessel landed value of the world’s reported catch of roughly 65 billion €, based on the ex-vessel price database documented in Sumaila et al. (2007).”
Global economic value of shark ecotourism: implications for conservation (2013, methodology): “720,000 t of sharks were landed in 2009, a 20% decline from the historical maximum in 2003 and totalling c. USD 630 million in landed value (based on data from FAO, 2011, and Sumaila et al., 2007).”
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