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

Action Coordination of Research in Fishery Economics, Working
Document Nr: 7,(AIR CT94 1489), Workshop, Edinburgh, October: 52-
67.
A constrained optimization model is developed to determine the impact of
fishing effort constraints on profits, the issuing process of effort licenses
and allocation, management and control costs, bioeconomic efficiency, income
distribution, and compliance in European Union fisheries. Given the limited
yield from the fish stocks (implicit TAC), the transition from TAC to effort
regulation problem is to determine the level of effort, preferably expressed
in umber of fishing days for fleet segments, that corresponds to the amount of
fish a particular stock may yield, be it a quota or sustainable yield.
Fulton, Murray and Richard E. Just (1989). "Antitrust, Exploration, and
Social Optimality in Nonrenewable Resource Markets." Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, 17:1-21.
Dependence of electrical utilities on uncertain supplies of uranium
apparently has led to an unusual conditioning of uranium demand on the
uncertainty of supply that, in turn, depends on the volume of reserves. This
paper examines the implications of controlling resource production uncertainty
through exploration. Exploration gives a monopolistic resource supplier
another tool (in addition to restricting output) that can be used to exercise
market power. Exploration, however, is not subject to antitrust regulation.
Results show that traditional antitrust laws may move such an industry away
rather than toward social optimality.
Funk, Fritz (1993). Preliminary Forecasts of Catch and Stock Abundance for
1993 Alaska Herring Fisheries. Regional Information Report No. 5J93-
06, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, P.O. Box 25526, Juneau, Alaska,
May, 92 pp.
The Pacific herring Clupea pallasi sac roe harvest in Alaska for 1993 is
projected to be 76,063 tons. Herring food/bait harvests for 1993 are
projected to be 9,938 tons. Herring spawn-on-pound-kelp fisheries are
expected to produce 335 tons of product and spawn-on-wild-kelp harvests are
expected to produce an additional 443 tons. The projected sac roe, food/bait,
and spawn-on--kelp harvests are expected to increase from the 1992 levels.
The 1992 herring harvest had an estimated value to fishermen of $31,504,867.
Of the total 1992 value, sac roe fisheries contributed $25,160,330, spawn-onpound-kelp
fisheries $3,722,000, food/bait fisheries $2,135,156, and spawn-onwild-kelp
fisheries $487,381. Excellent recruitment from the 1988 year class
in most areas has caused stock levels to increase. In many areas the 1988
year class appears to be the largest on record. This strong year class will
be age 5 for the 1993 harvest.
Funk, Robert D., Wade L. Griffin, James W. Mjelde, and John M. Ward
(1999). "A General Bioeconomic Fisheries Simulation Model of
License Limitation and Buyback in the Texas Bay Shrimp Fishery."
Manuscript submitted to the American Journal of Agricultural
Economics.
The effect of a license limitation and buyback program being implemented
for the Texas bay shrimp fishery on effort, rents, license price, and consumer
and producer surplus is simulated. Results indicate the current program will
not reduce effort and increase rents until year 16 of the program. To
decrease the time necessary to reduce effort, additional funds to buyback
licenses are necessary. Simulated results indicate that an additional
$500,000 available per year at the beginning of the program to buy licenses
2 0 9