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

Kato, Y. (1996). Expert Consultation on Fishing Capacity. FAX to William
Fox, Chief Scientific Advisor, NMFS, Silver Spring, MD, from Director
FIP, fisheries Department, FAO, Rome, Italy.
Expert consultation on management of fishing capacity prospectus.
Kaufmann, Barry, and Gerry Geen (1997). Cost-Recovery as a Fisheries
Management Tool. Marine Resource Economics, 12(1):57-66.
The current widespread use of taxpayer-funded public sector institutions
to deliver fisheries management services limits the likelihood of successfully
implementing any solution. Our opinion is that full cost-recovery of
fisheries management services, by motivating fishers to demand cost effective
management and stronger property rights, represents a powerful stimulus to the
evolution of more effective institutional and operational arrangements. Such
arrangements are likely to feature an increasing provision of fisheries
management services by the private sector.
Kazmierczak, Richard F., Jr. and Rex H. Caffey (1995). Management Ability
and the Economics of Recirculating Aquaculture Production Systems.
Marine Resource Economics, 10(2):187-209.
A bioeconomic model of fish growth in recirculating aquaculture systems
was constructed by developing a bioenergetic model comprised of metabolic
submodels for growth, ammonia production, and oxygen consumption. Metabolite
accumulations are determined by exogenous control variables for filtration and
aeration and used to indirectly represent management ability. Numerical
solutions to model parameters were obtained using a two point boundary
shooting algorithm within a dynamic profit maximization framework. Optimal
trajectory, isoquant, and bioeconomic optimization analyses describe specific
tradeoff relationships existing between nutrition, density, and technology.
Results demonstrate the economic importance of these relationships changes
over time in response to fish weight, and not always in ways suggested by the
physical importance of individual factors. Specifically, economically viable
tradeoffs between dietary protein and stocking density occur over relatively
narrow regions to management ability. Without highly experienced and capable
management, the biological realities of recirculation systems may preclude
profitable system operation.
Kazmierczak, Richard F., Jr., Hector O. Zapata, and Hamady Diop (1997).
Noncompetitive Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Mauritanian
Octopus Export Markets. Journal of Agribusiness, 15(1):85-102.
Octopus exports are an important source of foreign exchange earnings for
Mauritania. The export market has historically been dominated by coordinated
Japanese buyers, a situation that led Mauritania to create the Societe
Mauritanienne de Commercialisation de Poisson (SMCP) to negotiate with buyers
and manage all octopus exports. Issues concerning competitiveness, price
discrimination, and exchange rate pass-through in the Mauritanian octopus
export market were empirically examined in this study using a seemingly
unrelated regression model corrected for contemporaneous and serial
correlation. Results indicate some degree of price discrimination across
destination markets, market share enhancement through local currency price
stabilization, and increases in marginal costs of production following
nationalization of the Mauritanian trawler fleet. Thus, while creation of the
SMCP did not result in the development of complete countervailing market
power, Mauritania has managed to enhance the position of its octopus exports
in the lucrative Japanese market.
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