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that the study would provide benchmarks for decision-making to improve the
shrimping industry and to utilize the resources more efficiently. In
addition, the study analyzed some existing and alternative management programs
that were related to the mobility of trawlers in the region. However, the
general objective is to provide information and analysis to policy makers, not
to make policies.
Liao, David S. (1993). "Economic Analysis of the 1991 South Carolina
Shrimp Baiting Fishery." South Carolina Marine Resources Center,
Technical Report Number 81, April, 25 pp.
This study s purpose was to develop some basic economic information
concerning the recreational shrimp baiting fishery. Specific objectives
include determining the socio-economic characteristics of licensed
recreational shrimpers, analyzing factors affecting recreational shrimping
trips, and estimating the economic values of shrimp baiting trips by the
direct questioning method. Total gross economic values of shrimping trips in
1991 were estimated at $1.9 million, while total net economic values were only
$236 thousand. The analysis of commercial and recreational shrimping
relationships indicated that the commercial shrimp landings were independent
of the level of recreational shrimping harvest. Therefore, commercial and
recreational shrimping activities can coexist even if the gross economic value
per pound was lower from recreational shrimping.
Liao, David S. and Theodore I.J. Smith (1981). "Test Marketing of
Freshwater Shrimp, Macrobrachium Rosenbergii, in South Carolina."
Aquaculture, 23:373-379.
A market testing study was conducted to examine the consumer and
retailer acceptance for locally produced freshwater shrimp in South Carolina.
The majority of consumers evaluated freshwater shrimp as similar to saltwater
shrimp and about 89% were willing to purchase these shrimp from seafood
stores. All retailers indicated that freshwater shrimp demonstrated high
salability in their outlets and that they would add this aquafood to existing
product lines.
Libby, Lawrence W. (1994). "Conflict on the Commons: Natural Resource
Entitlements, the Public Interest, and Agricultural Economics."
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 76(5):997-1009.
This paper is about property rights, the public interest, and our
particular piece of agricultural economics real estate in the path of economic
and social change. I will examine selected natural resource institutional
issues for insight about our discipline and profession. The parallels lead to
certain recommendations essential to our professional survival, an important
part of any presidential address. My examples are the current property rights
debate, two cases where good intentions for resource development produced
major environmental damage (irrigating the desert and draining the
Everglades), and cases where changing human values have created resource
issues (use of public lands and wetland protection). Then I will briefly
mention farm policy in this context of changing values.
Libecap, Gary D. (1989). Contracting for Property Rights. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
This study is of the way property rights (the basic incentive system
that shapes resource allocation) institutions are formed. Property rights are
formed and enforced by political entities and reflect the conflicting
interests and bargaining strength of those affected. Four common pool case
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