Comparing compensation mussel production costs and traditional agricultural farmers willingness to pay to reduce nutrient loads in the Limfjord

TY - CONF

T1 - Comparing compensation mussel production costs and traditional agricultural farmers willingness to pay to reduce nutrient loads in the Limfjord

AU - Frost, Hans Staby

AU - Hasler, Berit

AU - Hoff, Ayoe

AU - Zandersen, M.

AU - Ørum, Jens Erik

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Nitrogen non-point pollution from agriculture is the dominating source of eutrophication of Danish fjords. Long-line mussel production is an alternative measure to costly agricultural measures to achieve good ecological status of fjords. This paper investigates farmers’ economic incentives to buy nitrogen quotas from compensatory mussel producers. The Danish fjord Limfjorden is used as case study area, and an agricultural model is developed including crop-distribution, soil quality , leaching and retention among the farms in case-catchments. The main conclusion is that trading nitrogen-quotas between mussel farms and agriculture provides a potential for cost-effective mitigation of eutrophication in this type of fjords.

AB - Nitrogen non-point pollution from agriculture is the dominating source of eutrophication of Danish fjords. Long-line mussel production is an alternative measure to costly agricultural measures to achieve good ecological status of fjords. This paper investigates farmers’ economic incentives to buy nitrogen quotas from compensatory mussel producers. The Danish fjord Limfjorden is used as case study area, and an agricultural model is developed including crop-distribution, soil quality , leaching and retention among the farms in case-catchments. The main conclusion is that trading nitrogen-quotas between mussel farms and agriculture provides a potential for cost-effective mitigation of eutrophication in this type of fjords.

M3 - Paper

T2 - Miljøøkonomisk konference, De økonomiske Råd, Skodsborg 2014

Y2 - 25 August 2014 through 26 August 2014

ER -