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($450 million lost annually).
Chambers, Robert B. and Ivar E. Strand, Jr. (1986). "Estimating
Parameters of a Renewable Resource Model Without Population Data."
Marine Resource Economics, 2(3):263-274.
A general approach to determining parameters of a traditional
bioeconomic model is offered for the situation in which knowledge of resource
abundance is unknown. Production parameters (such as catchability
coefficients) and biological factors (such as natural mortality and
recruitment) are included in the model. The general model is articulated for
a typical fishery and further specified to obtain estimates of parameters for
the St. John's river Shad fishery. The results, considering the illustrative
nature of the analysis, are promising and suggest avenues of additional
research.
Chambers, Robert B., Rolf Fare, Shawna Grosskopf, James Kirkley, Johan
A. Mistiaen, Catherine J. Morrison Paul, Dale Squires, and Ivar E.
Strand, Jr. (1999). "A Workshop on Measuring Productivity in
Fisheries." Draft report, Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, University of Maryland, May.
A summary of the results of a workshop held to develop an index of
fishery productivity. Unique problems arising from common property fisheries,
regulation, and multiple outputs were discussed in the context of existing
productivity theory. Case studies were presented for a number of different
approaches including econometric analysis and an application of a Malmquist
index.
Chapman, D.G. (1964). "A Critical Study of Pribilof Fur Seal Population
Estimates." Fishery Bulletin, 63(3):657-669.
Previously unresolved problems in the populations studies of the
Pribilof fur seal are reviewed. The tagging estimates of fur seal pups may
have been biased by tag mortality and hence the apparent year class
fluctuations after 1952 may be unreal. A set of cumulative estimates are
given for the number of pups born in each year since 1950. These cumulative
estimates depend on the estimate of the ratio of survival of females to males
from birth to age 3. An estimate of this ratio is given. The implications of
this study on the population dynamics model of the fur seal are reviewed: in
particular while the exact model is less definite, the suggested optimum
population level is almost unchanged from that suggested in earlier studies.
Charles, Anthony T. (1983). "Optimal Fisheries Investment: Comparative
Dynamics for a Deterministic Seasonal Fishery." Can J. Fish.
Aquat. Sci., 40:2069-2079.
A dynamic fisheries model is developed to simultaneously optimize
investment in the resource stock (the fish) and investment in the capital
stock (the fleet). Each of these investment problems faces a major
complication; investment in the resource is constrained by the natural
population dynamics, while investment in the physical capital stock tends to
be irreversible because capital used in natural resource industries is often
nonmalleable. The model assumes a seasonal fishery in which annual escapement
and capital investment levels can be controlled. A dynamic programming
approach is used to analyze the model heuristically and numerically. The
comparative dynamics of optimal investment strategies are studied, with regard
to (i) delays in investment, (ii) population dynamics parameters, (iii) fish
price, (iv) capital cost, (v) depreciation rate, and (vi) discount rate. In
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