The impact of heterogeneous environmental regulation on the green development of fisheries in China
China is the largest fishery country in the world.However,China's fishing industry still faces prob-lems such as extensive production methods,low green production efficiency,and severe environmental pollu-tion.It is of great significance to achieve green and high-quality fishery development.In recent years,the Chinese government has introduced a series of environmental regulatory policies to promote the green develop-ment of fisheries.Based on the provincial panel data from 2010 to 2020,the SBM-GML index is used to meas-ure the green total factor productivity(GTFP)of fishery,and the direct impacts of two types of environmental regulations-command-control regulation and market-incentive regulation on the fishery GTFP are empirically analyzed.On this basis,the heterogeneities of the impact of environmental regulatory tools on the green total factor productivity of fisheries in regions with different levels of economic development are studied.The re-search found that:1)In the past decade,China's fishery GTFP fluctuated between 0.967 and 1.090,showing a steady and rising trend.Technological progress is the main source and power of China's fishery GTFP growth.2)The impacts of two types of environmental regulations on fishery GTFP are significantly different.The im-pact of command-control environmental regulations is an inverted"U"type,which promotes GTFP first and then suppresses it;while the impact of market-incentive environmental regulations is a positive"U"type,which suppresses GTFP first and then promotes it.3)Different types of environmental regulations have region-al differences in their impact on fisheries GTFP.Command-control environmental regulation plays a more sig-nificant role in economically developed regions,while market-incentive environmental regulation plays a more significant role in economically backward regions.Therefore,in order to promote the green and high-quality development of fisheries,the government should reasonably select environmental regulation policies,scien-tifically set the intensity of environmental regulation tools according to the level of regional economic develop-ment and local conditions,actively improve the innovation ability of fishery technology,and strengthen the R&D and promotion of green technology.
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