碩士 / 國立海洋大學 / 應用經濟研究所 / 91 / Taiwan became the 144th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2002. According to the agreement on subsidy and countervailing measures, Taiwan has reduced half of its support on fuel since September 1, 2002. In the meantime, in order to control the fishing effort of coastal and offshore fisheries and reduce the impacts of the diminishing financial support on fuel, Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency has offered a voluntary rewarding program for fishing vessels with 100 fishing days a year and will suspend fishing activities voluntarily at least 120 days a year. This study conducted a survey to investigate fishermen’s behavior and used the ANOVA analysis and the Probit model to identify factors that affect fishermen’s willingness to accept the Suspending Fishing Activities Program.
Results from the ANOVA analysis show that the number of fishing days per trip, the most urgent policy about the coastal and offshore fisheries, whether the rewarding schedule being reasonable or not, the willingness of reducing fishing effort when government decreases subsidy on fuel, the willingness of accepting the offer under the reward standard in 2004, the willingness of supporting the government to make budget on the rewarding schedule continuously, and the willingness of supporting the government to implement a restriction on fishing activities during the spawning and juvenile seasons are the primary variables that affect fishermen’s willingness to accept the offers of suspending fishing activities.
In addition, Probit regression results show that fishermen with fishing vessels that are between 50 and 100 tons are more likely to accept the offer than other fishermen. This may attribute to the reduction of support on fuel, since larger size fishing vessels would have higher fuel costs. Fishing vessel operators whose major fishing gears are torch light or others miscellaneous fishery gears and operate on a seasonal basis are more likely to accept the offer than fishing vessels that are operating as trawl and angling fisheries. Fishing vessel operators whose fishing grounds are less than 12 miles away from the shore and the owner is older than sixty-one years old are more likely to accept the offer. On the other hand, fishermen who disagree or very much disagree with the following opinions: the rewarding schedule, reducing fishing effort when government decreases the support on fuel, and accepting the offer under the reward level in 2004, showed a lower percentage to accept the offer. This study finds that the predication of accuracy of the Probit model is about 87.81%, an indication that the model can predict fisherman’s choice reasonably well.
Out of the 279 valid samples, only 161 (57.71%) respondents are willing to accept the offer, which is much lower than the more than 80% that government expected. However, 98.57% respondents realized the deterioration of the coastal and offshore fishery resources and 78% supported restrictions on fishing activities during the spawning and juvenile seasons, an indication that a need for a mandatory closed fishing season policy in the future.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/091NTOU0452028 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | chia-chen liu, 劉家禎 |
| Contributors | Chin-Hwa Sun, Ph.D, 孫金華 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 93 |
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