Some have argued that open-access fisheries will always b...

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CR · Critical Reasoning

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Resolve a Paradox

Some have argued that open-access fisheries will always be subject to more exploitation than are private fisheries. The reasoning is that each fisherman will be more likely to over fish open-access fisheries because he alone reaps the benefits, while the costs of mitigating measures to prevent the collapse of over-exploited fisheries is borne by all. Despite this, one study of 250 common-access fisheries and 103 private fisheries showed that the open-access fisheries were less exploited than the private ones.

Which of the following, if true and known by the fishermen, is the best explanation tor the results of the study?

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There are more common-access fisheries than there are Private ones.

It is more difficult to measure the cost of over fishing that is attributable to any particular fisherman in common-access fisheries than in private ones.

If one fisherman were to over fish a common-access fishery even slightly, the other fishermen are more likely to do so even more, with the result that the ultimate costs to each fisherman outweigh the benefits.

Both the costs and benefits of over fishing fall to the individual user in private fisheries.\n

An individual fisherman would obtain a competitive advantage if he or she were able to catch more fish than other fishermen by over fishing common-access fisheries.

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