Hi everyone, Please excuse the potential naïveté of this question, but I¹m trying to find out if anyone¹s estimated the total costs of what it would take to effectively monitor global fisheries. Not looking for enforcement estimates, but just what it would cost (1) to improve current extraction estimates and (2) to get a good handle on the actual extent of IUU (illegal, unregulated & underreported) fisheries. In essence, what would it cost to make a fisheries biologist happy? (Don¹t think about that question for too long....)
I blandly told my class today that if we can analogize IUU to a ³Darth Vader² form of ³monitoring,² and if we accept the estimated monetary value of IUU of ~10b (a very sketchy figure), then we might be able to use the costs of IUU (nets, crew, boat maintenance, wifi access, lattes, etc.) as a proxy measure for what it would cost to monitor global fisheries (and assuming a profit, those costs have to be <~$10b). Though I immediately turned to another subject in the hopes that nobody wrote that spurious idea down in their notes, I am still wondering if anyone¹s made the estimates of the actual costs of effective global monitoring. My current guess is that it would far exceed the value of IUU, but it¹s only a guess (kind of depends on the extent of IUUin a perverse sort of way, one would hope that it would far exceed the value of IUU). Please send ideas to me, I¹ll collate, and then send back out to the list. Thanks, -Charlie ________________ Charles C. Chester 9 Lowell Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.304.9373 http://www.Y2Y.net http://www.brandeis.edu/environmentalstudies http://www.ConservationClimateChangeClearinghouse.net
