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current management policy in sustaining swordfish stocks and improving long
run net economic returns to the fishery, (2) provide comparisons of current
policy (i.e. TAC direct and bycatch quotas) to proposed policies in terms of
sustainability of the fishery and long run economic returns, and (3) compute
the optimal 6 month harvest quota and bycatch limit under the following
alternate goals: maximize long run economic returns, maximize annual yields,
and maximize likelihood of sustaining the fishery beyond a specified target
date.
Lee, Donna, Sherry L. Larkin, and Charles Adams (1996). A Bioeconomic
Analysis of Proposed Regulations in the U.S. North Atlantic Swordfish
Fishery. Staff Paper SP 98-10, Institute of Food and Agricultural
Sciences, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Fl, June, 56 pp.
A bioeconomic programming model was developed for the North Atlantic
swordfish (Xiphias gladius)fishery to examine the effect of alternative
management schemes. The model uses population dynamic equations obtained from
the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
and characteristics of the domestic fleet as reported to National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 1996. The model chooses the annual harvest level
and domestic fleet size that maximize the net present value of returns to the
U.S. commercial fishery across a five-year time horizon ( which corresponds
with the ICCAT management time line). The model explicitly includes
conservation measures.
Results indicate that five-year economic returns to the U.S. Atlantic
longline fishery (discounted at ten percent annually) can be increased by
reducing fleet size or by lowering the mortality of incidentally caught
juveniles. Domestic policies aimed at reducing juvenile mortality may
increase biomass in subsequent years and benefit the entire industry.
Regulators need, however, to jointly consider such policies since an increase
in stock size may be able to support a larger domestic fleet (which would
contrast with proposed limited entry policies.).
Lee, John, Jr. (1994). Transparency, Empowerment, and the Public Interest: A
View on the Role of Publicly-Employed Agricultural Economists.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76(5):1010-1021.
What should publicly supported institutions that employ agricultural
economists expect of them.
Lee, Lung Fei and Robert P. Trost (1978). "Estimation of some Limited
Dependent Variable Models with Application to Housing Demand."
Journal of Econometrics, 8:357-382.
A model that extends the switching regression models and combines
several different limited dependent variable models into a general framework
is introduced. Methods to get consistent estimates and asymptotic efficient
estimates are derived. Our estimation procedures are then used to study a
housing expenditure model that takes into account the simultaneous
determination of whether or not to own and how much to spend.
Lee, S. Todd and Daniel Holland (1999). The Impact of Noisy Catch Data on
Estimates of Fishing Capacity Derived From DEA and Stochastic Frontier
Models: A Monte Carlo Comparison. Draft report, Alaska Fisheries
Science Center, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, 23 pp.
There is currently much national and international interest in measuring
commercial fishing capacity. Two quantitative methods that will likely be
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