I am a university teacher working in the Economics of aquatic ecosystems group at the University of Helsinki.
My main research interest is the sustainable use and optimal management of marine resources. Baltic salmon fisheries provide a broad spectrum of interesting resource allocation challenges that can be studied with the methods of natural resource economics. The main tool in our studies is numerical bioeconomic modeling coupled with dynamic optimization.
Here are the topics I have been dealing with lately:
- The economic interaction of Grey seal conservation and salmon coastal fisheries
- Ecological and economic implications of the recreational fishers’ behavioral complexity
- Comparing economic and biological management objectives in the commercial Baltic salmon fisheries (in Finnish MSY vai kenties MEY?)
- Overcoming pitfalls in interdisciplinary education
- Economic and social analyses within the State of the Baltic Sea holistic assessment (HELCOM)
Keywords: bioeconomic modeling, age-structured model, Halichoerus grypus, Salmo salar L., human-wildlife conflict, seal-salmon conflict, recreational fisheries, angler complexity, maximum sustainable yield, maximum economic yield
Maija Holma
University teacher
Environmental economics
Department of Economics and Management
Latokartanonkaari 5 (room 333)
00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358 50 415 1226