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Fishery off Texas and Louisiana." NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-
SEFC-136, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
National Marine Fisheries Service, Galveston Laboratory,
Galveston, Texas, March, 28 pp.
The objectives of whether the Texas Closure regulation increased shrimp
yield and reduced discarding of undersized shrimp were determined for 1982 and
1983. This report reviews and analyzes the characteristics of the Texas and
Louisiana fisheries west of the Mississippi River and describes the catch,
fishing effort, relative abundance and recruitment to the offshore fishery
from June 1982-August 1983.
Klima, Edward F., James M. Nance, Eduardo X. Martinez, and Terrance
Leary (1990). "Workshop on Definition of Shrimp Recruitment
Overfishing." NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-SEFC-264, 21 p.
This report summarizes the findings of a two day workshop undertaken to
(1) draft scientific definitions of overfishing for each of the shrimp species
in the management unit of the Fishery Management Plan and (2) to recommend
action that might be taken if overfishing occurred in any of these stocks.
Kling, Catherine L. (1987). "A Simulation Approach to Comparing
Multiple Site Recreation Demand Models Using Chesapeake Bay Survey
Data." Marine Resource Economics, 4:95-109.
This paper's purpose is to implement a methodology that can be used to
suggest a model (or models) appropriate for valuing quality improvements in
the Chesapeake Bay. To compare these approaches, a series of outdoor
recreation user populations is constructed by choosing a utility function, its
parameter values and an error distribution. This information is combined with
the characteristics of individuals and recreation sites from a Chesapeake Bay
recreation demand survey to solve the individual's maximization problem. Each
of the models is estimated using these data, and the compensating variation of
a quality change is calculated. Benefit estimates are compared with simulated
welfare change to evaluate the models.
Kling, Catherine L. (1988). "The Reliability of Estimates of
Environmental Benefits from Recreation Demand Models." Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 70(4):892-901.
Recreation demand models are commonly employed tools of economists
interested in valuing improvements in environmental amenities. Despite their
importance, little comparative work has been undertaken to examine the ability
of the models to accurately estimate welfare changes. A simulation study
designed to compare the reliability of estimated welfare measures
(compensating variation and consumer surplus) from several commonly employed
recreation demand models is presented. Results of the study indicate that
choice of functional forma nd model specification are important determinants
of the resulting estimates of benefits.
Kling, Catherine L. (1988). "Comparing Welfare Estimates of
Environmental Quality Changes from Recreation Demand Models."
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 15:331-340.
This paper presents a procedure for examining the reliability of welfare
estimates resulting from the estimation of multiple site recreation demand
models. A simulation approach is suggested where a utility function is
combined with observations of individual and site characteristics to generate
simulated data sets. Welfare measures associated with an improvement in site
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