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Session

Egg-timer session: Fisheries and agriculture
Location: Auditorium H
Session Chair: Linda Nostbakken, Statistics Norway

Presentation 6

Subsidizing Production Inputs: A Bait Policy for Sustainable Fisheries

Santiago Gomez Cardona¹, Sorell De Silva², Bwambale Mbilingi³

1: Maastricht University, The Netherlands; 2: Heidelberg University, Germany; 3: National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Uganda

Monitoring and punishment are commonly used to deter non-compliance, but their effectiveness is often limited in developing contexts with weak enforcement. We explore an alternative strategy: replacing a non-compliant input with a compliant one in an open-access fishery. Specifically, we assess whether aquaculture bait (complaint) can serve as a viable alternative to wild-caught (non-compliant) bait in the Nile perch longline fishery of Lake Victoria, Africa. Using a randomized controlled trial with 86 boats, we compare the performance of aquaculture bait to that of its non-compliant alternative. Following the intervention, we also assess willingness to pay (WTP) for aquaculture bait among 100 users. Our results show that catch outcomes from aquaculture bait are comparable to those of wild-caught bait, with the potential for improved performance under effective management practices. Furthermore, users expressed a willingness to adopt aquaculture bait, though a price reduction of over 40% would be necessary to drive widespread uptake. These findings suggest that aquaculture bait has the potential to be a key component of regulatory efforts aimed at enhancing the sustainability of the Nile perch fishery in Lake Victoria.