John Lynham

Professor of Economics

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

I am a Professor of Economics at the University of Hawaiʻi. In the past, I have held Visiting Professor positions at Udayana University in Indonesia, IÉSEG School of Management in Paris, Stanford University in California, and Trinity College in Ireland. My area of specialty is the Ocean Economy.

If you ended up here because you are interested in my recent paper with Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez on spillovers from large MPAs, you can find an ungated version of the paper here.

I acknowledge that the ‘āina on which I work and live is part of the larger territory recognized by Indigenous Hawaiians as their ancestral grandmother: Papahānaumoku.

Interests

Environmental/Resource Economics
Fisheries Economics
Marine Ecology
Behavioral Economics

Education

PhD in Economics

University of California Santa Barbara
MA in Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology

University of California Santa Barbara
MA in Economics

University of California Santa Barbara
BA in Economics

Trinity College, University of Dublin

“For scientists, a lingering question is how big marine reserves must be in order to protect species that swim long distances, such as tuna.” - Science

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“It might be useful to know whether claims about the economic damage that Papahānaumokuākea has caused to the fishing industry are actually true.” - Civil Beat

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“But according to a new study led by John Lynham, a marine resource economist at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, those negative impacts were overstated.” - Hakai Magazine

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“Nice paper from Rani Ekawaty, John Lynham, Peter Mous - randomised controlled trial of a price premium on larger #fish in #Indonesia (first #RCT of #PES in a developing country fishery) shows positive impact” - EJ Milner-Gulland

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“Ecuador has created a new marine sanctuary in the Galápagos Islands that will offer protection to the world’s greatest concentration of sharks … A 2015 economic study calculated … the tourism value of a shark over its lifetime in the Galápagos.” - The Guardian

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“The Obama administration is proposing significant new spending on a proposed cap-and-trade regulatory scheme for fisheries … Recent studies … found that catch shares … cut in half the collapse rate for fisheries.” - The New York Times

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“Their gloomy prediction was that by 2048 all the world’s commercial fisheries would have collapsed. Now two economists and a marine biologist have looked at an idea that might prevent such a catastrophe.” - The Economist

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“Giving people ownership rights in marine fisheries can halt or even reverse catastrophic declines in commercial stocks, researchers in California and Hawaii are reporting.” - The New York Times

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Five Most Recent Publications

M. Motsoehli, A. Nikolaev, W. B. I Gede, J. Lynham, P. J. Mous, P. Sadowski (2024). FishNet: Deep Neural Networks for Low-Cost Fish Stock Estimation. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS).

DOI arXiv

Simone Franceschini, John Lynham, Elizabeth MP Madin (2024). A global test of MPA spillover benefits to recreational fisheries. Science Advances.

DOI Open Access PDF

Anna Lou Abatayo, Madelon van Adrichem, John Lynham (2024). Comparing access to US marine and terrestrial protected areas. Nature Sustainability.

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John Lynham, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez (2024). Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries. Science.

DOI Ungated Version

Abdul Malik, John Lynham, Muhammad Ichsan Ali, Abd Jalil, Abd Rahim, Andi Rahmawati, others (2024). The Value of Mangroves to Domestic Tourists and Local Households in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tourism in Marine Environments.

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