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

Draft Phase I Report, March, 45 pp.
An assessment of economic methods to value hydroelectric relicensing
applications is made in this report. The techniques used by various federal
agencies to conduct analyses required by federal and state law are reviewed.
A section summarizing the types of analyses that should be used is presented.
The report focuses primarily on short run impacts that directly affect the
river environment. One major omission is the lack of a long run or downstream
impacts in the assessment of costs and benefits. The assertion that changes
in national income can be used to estimate net benefits is suspect. No
concise recommendations are provided nor are any multi-discipline analyses
suggested.
Economic Research Laboratory (1973). "Basic Economic Indicators, Shrimp
1947-72." Current Fisheries Statistics No. 6131, National Marine
Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, United States Department of Commerce, Washington,
D.C., June, 55 pp.
This report brings together pertinent economic, technological, and
biological data that reflects the behavior of the U.S. shrimp fishery.
Economic Research Laboratory (1974). "Basic Economic Indicators,
American and Spiny Lobsters, 1947-73." Current Fisheries
Statistics No. 6272, National Marine Fisheries Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department
of Commerce, Washington, D.C., August, 58 pp.
This report brings together pertinent economic, technological, and
biological data that reflects the behavior of the U.S. lobster fishery.
Edwards, Steven F. (1989). " On Estimating Household Demand for Outdoor
Recreation from Property Values: An Exploration." Northeastern
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 18(2):140-148.
This paper explores how hedonic price analysis might be used to estimate
the surplus benefits of local outdoor recreation when distance to the
recreational site is captured in property values. The model is characterized
by the endogenous choice of distance to a local recreational area by
households in coastal property markets and by the capitalization of proximity
in property values. Equilibrium occurs when the reduction in the cost of a
property due to a marginal increase in distance to the recreational area
equals the associated loss in recreational surplus resulting from increased
travel costs. The theoretical model is applied in an exploratory analysis of
the "demand" for distance to the nearest public beach from which total surplus
benefits are estimated.
Edwards, Steven F. (1989). "Allocating Fish Stocks Between Commercial
and Recreational Fisheries: An Economics Primer." Draft report,
Economics Investigation Unit, Northeast Fisheries Center, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole, MA 02543, September 13, 111
pp.
An earlier draft of "An Economics Guide to Allocation of Fish Stocks
Between Commercial and Recreational Fisheries." See below.
Edwards, Steven F. (1989). "Evidence of Structural Change in Demand for
Seafood." Draft report, NEFC, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
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