Salmon aquaculture generates good output (i.e., salmon) and bad output (e.g., pollution). A joint production function approach is applied to model both outputs simultaneously. Two environmental production technologies are specified, namely, regulated and unregulated technologies. Two production...

A debate is emerging over the extent to which privatization of fishery resources is socially desirable. The "pessimists" argue that there are strict limits to socially optimal privatization of such resources. The "optimists" maintain that there are no effective limits to privatization and that...