annotated bibliography of fisheries economics literature - Office of ...

This report describes the basic concepts of economics and the tools used
to answer the question of how much wetlands should be preserved and what is
the value of the land in its natural state, and the methods used to estimate
demand curves for wetlands. These methods are then divided into those that
adhere to economic theory and those that were developed outside of the
paradigm of economics.
Cropper, Maureen L. (1988). "A Note on the Extinction of Renewable
Resources." journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
15:64-70.
This paper presents two sets of conditions under which a sole owner of a
renewable resource stock who maximizes a nonlinear benefit function would find
it more profitable to harvest the stock to extinction than follow a continuous
harvesting strategy. When the minimum viable resource stock is positive,
extinction is optimal as long as the initial resource stock is sufficiently
small, regardless of the discount rate. When the minimum viable resource
stock is zero and the discount rate exceeds the growth potential of the
species extinction is optimal for sufficiently small initial stocks.
Cropper, Maureen L. and Wallace E. Oates (1992). "Environmental
Economics: A Survey." Journal of Economic Literature, 30(2):675-
740.
The evolution of environmental policy has inevitably brought economic
issues to the fore. Our survey of environmental economics is structured with
an eye toward its policy potential. For this purpose, we have tried to
distinguish between environmental economics that deals with (1) the regulation
of polluting activities and (2) the valuation of environmental amenities and
natural resource economics that deals with the intertemporal allocation of
renewable and nonrenewable resources.
Crothers, Grant T. (1986). "Individual Transferable Quotas: the New
Zealand Experience." Draft Report, Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries, Wellington, New Zealand.
A historical overview of fisheries management in New Zealand with
special emphasis on individual transferable quotas. The introduction of ITQ
established long term economic principles which have created a new fisheries
management environment. Within certain conservation constraints, allocation
of fisheries resources is now largely dictated by market forces. To
appreciate New Zealand's market oriented management approach, it is necessary
to view the commercial fishery in its physical and historical context.
Crouch, Ben M. (1989). "Mexican Shrimp, Texas Shrimpers, and Maritime
Conflict: The Creation of a White Collar Crime." Deviant
Behavior, 10:211-232.
Though not its specific intent, the 1981 amendment of the Lacey Act
transformed a traditional practice among south Texas shrimpers-fishing in
Mexican waters--into a violation of federal maritime law. Prior to the
amendment this practice was overlooked by U.S. authorities and only
sporadically controlled by Mexican authorities. Federal strategies for Lacey
Act enforcement in the northern Gulf of Mexico and shrimper reactions to them
led to an escalation of conflict between U.S. fishermen and authorities.
Drawing on official documents and extensive interviews with both shrimpers and
federal agents, the analysis examines federal authority and shrimper
interaction over time and applies Turk's theory of normative-legal conflict to
explain the course of that interaction.
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