Browsing by Author "Kuperan, K."

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Incidence and Determinants of Nonfishing Employment among Fishermen: Case Study of the State of Malacca, Malaysia
(1993) Mohd, Kusairi; Kuperan, K.; Yew, Tai Shzee
"Restriction or reduction of fishing effort is a universal prescription for an overexploited fishery. Conceivably the approach taken ranges from taking fishermen out of fishing completely to developing alternative sources of income for fishermen. The former approach imposes drastic changes on fishermen. The latter approach promises better prospects for success as fishermen are not divorced abruptly from their connections to the sea. Furthermore there is a strong subsistence component in most traditional small-scale fisheries which implies fishing communities will be deprived of an important source of protein food if they are prohibited from fishing. "This paper attempts to look at the incidence and nature of nonfishing employment and explore the main determinants of fishermen participation in these nonfishing activities. The study is focused on fishermen in the state of Malacca and is based on data collected from a survey of 285 respondents in early 1992. "The incidence of nonfishing employment is high (40%) in terms of numbers of fishermen having nonfishing employment and in terms of contribution of nonfishing to total income (38%). The importance of nonfishing income in improving income distribution, as evidenced by the Gini coefficient is not supported by this set of data. The main factors affecting participation examined are age, income from fishing, educational level, family size, and distance from town center. The influence of these factors on participation in nonfishing employment are examined via the logit and probit regression procedures."
Measuring Transaction Costs of Fisheries Co-Management
(1998) Kuperan, K.; Mustapha, Nik; Abdullah, Nik Mustapha Raja; Pomeroy, Robert S.; Genio, E.; Salamanca, Albert M.
"Fisheries co-management as an alternative to centralised command and control fisheries management is often suggested as a solution to the problems of fisheries resource use conflicts and overexploitation. Various researchers have talked of the importance of studying the role of transaction costs between different institutional arrangements for managing fisheries resources. There have however been no attempts to verify empirically by measuring the transaction costs involved in fisheries management. This paper provides some measurements of the transaction costs under a fisheries co-management system. The transaction costs can be categorised into three major cost items. These are (1) information costs, (2) collective fisheries decision-making costs, and (3) collective operational costs. The transaction costs of fisheries co-management in San Salvador Island, Philippines is presented. The method of collecting information about transactions cost of fisheries co-management had not been attempted anywhere before. Information on the cost of a wide range of transaction costs variables were collected. The costs are used to assess the relative importance of the various transactions costs in a co-managed and a centrally managed system. The difference in the transaction costs between a centraly managed and a co-managed system is used as a basis for public policy decisions on the choice of alternative institutional arrangements for managing a fishery."