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Ladner, Rosamund, Leah J. Smith, Susan Peterson, and James Wilson
(1981). "Bibliography of Socio-Economic Studies: Fisheries of the
Northeast U.S." Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Technical
Report WHOI-81-99, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543.
This bibliography of social and economic studies of the fisheries of the
Northeast United States includes annotated listings for each entry and an
index of key works for cross referencing. We have attempted to include all
studies published since 1970, and a selected group of particularly significant
studies done earlier. The major focus has been on commercial fisheries, but
recreational fishing studies have also been included when possible. In
addition to studies of the Northeast United States fisheries, studies of
Canadian fishing subsidies, European and other markets, have been included
because of their relevance to the regional industry. All stages of the
fishing industry's operation - harvesting, processing, distribution, marketing
- are included, along with management and policy oriented material.
Lallemand, Philippe, J.M. Gates, Joel Dirlam, and Jung Hee Cho (1998). The
Costs of Small Trawlers. Final report, Department of Environmental &
Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI,
March, 54 pp.
The results of an economic survey of small northeast fishing vessels
using otter trawl gear is described. The population consisted of 572 persons
who were holders of groundfish permits, had fishing vessels of 65 feet or
less, and who reported catches in New England using trawl gear in 1996. A 10
percent response rate was achieved from a mail survey of a questionnaire that
generated 35 usable responses from a probable population of 420 fishermen.
The results of our mail survey of small trawlers are presented in eleven sets
of tables and 4 sets of figures. Each table summarizes quantitative data
responses by providing two or more measures of central tendency (the mean or
average , the median, and the mode), and two measures of variability (the
standard deviation, the standard error of the mean, the skewness, and the
range). The Count on total respondents for each question is also provided as
an indication of the reliability of the results.
Lam, C.F., J.D. Whitaker, and F.S. Lee (1989). "Model for White Shrimp
Landings for the Central Coast of South Carolina." North American
Journal of Fisheries Management, 9:12-22.
A stock recruitment relationship (SRR) was developed for white shrimp
Penaeus setiferus in the central coastal area of South Carolina. The SRR is a
Beverton-Holt type curve for which May and June commercial fishery landings
represent stock and August-January landings represent recruitment. A
variable, August salinity in Charleston Harbor, was selected by the stepwise
regression process, and it was combined with the Beverton-Holt equation to
produce a model that explained 86.8% of the variation in August-January
landings. The final model was used to develop a family of SRR curves in which
each curve corresponded to a different salinity. This model was sufficiently
robust to forecast below average, average, and above average fall landings
from readily obtainable data collected in spring and summer. These findings
support South Carolina's existing management strategy of protecting spring
spawners as much as possible after severe winter weather when the brood stock
has suffered heavy mortality.
Lambert, David K. and J.S. Shonkwiler (1995). Factor Bias Under Stochastic
Technical Change. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
77(3):578-590.
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