Environmental Science
3 months ago

Growing groups and scarce resources lead to rapid overexploitation of fish.

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Environmental and Resource Economics
The Effects of Growing Groups and Scarcity on the Use of a Common Pool Resource – a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment with Lake Victoria Fishers
Astrid Dannenberg, Charlotte Klatt, Pia Pico

Paper Summary

The study looked at how fishermen in Uganda behave when fishing resources are scarce and when more people start fishing. They found that when resources are limited and more people fish, the fishermen do not reduce their fishing, leading to overfishing. This shows the importance of managing resources sustainably when there are not enough to go around.

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