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shrimp trawlers during the period 1962-71. Typical life spans appear to be
only one or two years, so that these fishes must mature rapidly. Their
theoretical total annual mortality rates are about 90-100%, so that there must
be a rapid turnover of biomass on the shrimp grounds. Fishes with this type
of life cycle tend to withstand extensive fishing without danger of over
harvesting, so that they apparently have great fisheries potential. The Gulf
shrimp fishery at present does not appear to be over harvesting the demersal
fishes.
Chopin, Frank, Yoshihiro Inoue, Y. Matsushita, and Takafumi Arimoto (1997).
Sources of Accounted and Unaccounted Fishing Mortality. In Solving
Bycatch, Considerations for Today and Tomorrow, Alaskan Sea Grant
College Program Report No. 96-03, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
Alaska, 322 pp.
Discarding of nontarget species and sizes of fish by commercial fishing
vessels is a common practice in many fisheries around the world and is
currently estimated at 27 million tons globally. Efforts to reduce discarding
through mechanical selection were started over 100 years ago and were the
precursor to mesh selectivity research in many European countries. The
release of fish through mechanical selection is now a preferred management
tool in many fisheries. In recent years, research into fish mortality after
escape has shown that mortalities vary by gear type and species, may be
immediate or delayed, and may be due to injuries or stressors associated with
capture-escape trauma. In addition to escape mortality, there are other
unaccounted mortalities associated with different capture technologies. This
paper reviews sources of unaccounted fishing mortality, presents a general
model of the capture process, and proposes a set of conservation technology
penalties for discards, ghost fishing, and escape mortalities for each gear
type and fleet sector. An effective conservation philosophy for reducing
resource waste must include a shift of research to the commercial sector and a
review program to allow for penalty reductions when new technologies are
introduced.
Christensen, Laurits R. (1977). "Estimating U.S. Consumer Preferences
for Meat with a Flexible Utility Function." Journal of
Econometrics, 5:37-53.
Direct and indirect translog utility functions provide budget share
equations that are both flexible and consistent with the theory of utility
maximization. These forms are attractive for modeling consumer behavior.
Because of their flexibility they are ideal for testing hypotheses such as
additivity of preferences. In this paper, we use the translog methodology to
analyze U.S. consumption of the four principal categories of meat-fish, beef,
poultry, and pork. We decisively reject the hypothesis of additivity.
However, further testing for partial additivity reveals that (beef) and (fish,
poultry, pork) are additively separable subgroups of meat.
Christensen, Laurits R., Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrence J. Lau (1975).
"Transcendental Logarithmic Utility Functions." American Economic
Review, 65(3):367-383.
A test of the theory of demand is developed that does not employ
additivity of homotheticity as part of the maintained hypothesis. Secondly,
the duality between prices and quantities in the theory of demand is
exploited. The indirect utility function is represented by functions that are
quadratic in the logarithms of ratios of prices to total expenditure,
paralleling the treatment of the direct utility function. The resulting
indirect utility functions provide a local second-order approximation to any
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