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Throughout its history the North Pacific halibut fishery has experienced
dramatic changes in season length-most recently a greater than tenfold
decrease during the last fifteen years. This analysis estimates the effect on
ex-vessel halibut demand of season length by incorporating it with other more
traditional explanatory variables such as landings, cold storage holdings, and
prices of substitutes in a price dependent demand analysis.
Ex-vessel demand is found to be price elastic; thus management programs
that increase catch will also increase gross fishing revenues. Cold storage
holdings have an inverse relationship to ex-vessel price. Since the level of
cold storage holdings decreases as the fishing season approaches, the date of
the first opening will affect the ex-vessel price. Finally the length of the
halibut season does have a positive relationship with ex-vessel price;
management strategies, such as limited entry, that increase season length will
increase ex-vessel demand.
Lind, Kent (1995). Using Economic Incentives in Environmental Management:
the Case of Marketable Permits for Pollution Control. Resource Ecology
and Fisheries Management Division, Alaska Fisheries Science Center,
National Marine Fisheries Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, BIN C15700,
Seattle, Washington, May, 24 pp.
The use of individual transferable quotas for bycatch (IBQ) or target
species (ITQ) has been proposed as a potential solution to the bycatch,
discard, and underutilization problem in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering
Sea/Aleutian Islands groundfish fisheries. The objective of this report is to
provide information that can be used to design and evaluate such programs by
summarizing the nature and effectiveness of environmental protection programs
that include the use of marketable rights. As policy makers begin to examine
the use of marketable permits as a solution to other environmental management
problems such as fisheries bycatch regulation, these results underscore the
importance of assuring that unnecessary constraints are not imposed in future
trading applications.
Lind, Kent and Joe Terry (1995). Community Development Quota (CDQ) and Open
Access Pollock Fisheries in the Eastern Bering Sea: A Comparison of
Groundfish Utilization and Prohibited Species Bycatch. AFSC Processed
Report 95-07, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries
Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, BIN C15700, Seattle, Washington,
November, 59 pp.
The different economic incentives presented in the open access and
community development quota (CDQ) pollock fisheries is examined. Several
hypotheses are tested as to the expected differences in vessel performance
under both types of systems. Among the measures of performance were
groundfish discard rates, prohibited species bycatch rates, product value per
unit of catch, pollock catch per unit of fishing effort (CPUE), dollars per
metric ton of pollock catch, and pollock catch per hour of fishing. Overall,
conditions in a CDQ fishery support a more efficient utilization of resources
in the pollock fishery and could be effective in addressing the problems of
discards and bycatch in the groundfish fisheries off Alaska.
Lindall, Bill (1995). "Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
Actions." Memorandum for distribution, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Southeast Regional Office, 9721 Executive Center Drive,
North, St. Petersburg, FL.
A list of actions, by fishery, approved by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council at their January 16-19, 1995 meeting.
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