Bergen Fisheries Economics Workshop 2022

The Bergen Fisheries Economics Workshop is an occasional event that brings together fisheries economists and other fisheries researchers from Bergen and beyond. Usually held in late fall at the campus of the Norwegian School of Economics.

November 8-9, 2022

Day 1: Aud. C

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Olli Tahvonen (University of Helsinki): What is common in animal intelligence, robotics, Go and optimal harvesting of renewable resources
14:00 - 14:30 Yuanming Ni (SNF): Using neural networks to represent ecosystem dynamics
14:30 - 15:00 Sturla Kvamsdal (SNF): Towards a two-stage generalized model for Norwegian demersal fisheries

15:00 - 15:30 Coffe (group photo)

15:30 - 16:00 Rasmus Bang (NHH): Preferred selectivity and optimal harvesting in age-structured predator-prey models
16:00 - 16:30 Eric Nævdal (Frisch): Optimal fisheries management and the response to price changes
16:30 - 17:00 Hans-Martin Straume (BI): Impacts of COVID-19 on Norwegian salmon exports: a firm-level analysis
17:00 - 17:30 Geir Ottersen (IMR): Observed and projected climate change in Nordic marine areas and impacts on important fish stocks

19:30 Dinner

Day 2: Aud. L

09:00 - 10:00 Frank Asche (University of Florida): Paying the polluter: rent formation and production distortions due to environmental regulations in food production
10:00 - 10:30 Yuanhao Li (Mowi/SNF): Data science technology in salmon aquaculture

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:30 Xiaozi Liu (IMR): Hake as a climate winner: emerging fishery dynamics and management implications
11:30 - 12:00 Helge Berglann (NIBIO): Eliminating competition in fisheries

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:30 Phuong Ho (SNF): Why is trading so important in cap and trade? The roles of economies of scale and productivity
13:30 - 14:00 Gunnar Eskeland (NHH): The atmosphere as a final fisheries management problem
14:00 - 14:30 Stein Ivar Steinshamn (NHH/SNF): A tax of many purposes
14:30 - 15:00 Leif Sandal (NHH): The distributional robust supply chain problem under pollution (CO2) emission permission

List of participants:
Frank Asche (University of Florida)
Rasmus Bang (NHH)
Helge Berglann (NIBIO)    
Nils Arne Ekerhovd (SNF)
Gunnar Eskeland (NHH)
Rögnvaldur Hannesson (NHH)
Phuong Ho (SNF)
Arnt Ove Hopland (NHH)
Sturla Kvamsdal (SNF)
Yuanhao Li (Mowi/SNF)
Xiaozi Liu (IMR)
Yuanming Ni (SNF)
Eric Nævdal (Frisch)
Geir Ottersen (IMR)
Leif Sandal (NHH)
Simon Selle (PwC/NHH)
Tigist Sommeno (SNF)
Stein Ivar Steinshamn (NHH/SNF)
Jan Erik Stiansen (IMR)
Hans-Martin Straume (BI)
Olli Tahvonen (University of Helsinki)
Xiurou Wu (SNF)
Margrethe Aanesen (SNF)

The workshop is organized in collaboration with the research project Production in the Barents Sea Fisheries. See post about the workshop on Linked-In.