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Characteristics of the Maine Party and Charter Boat Industry. The
Ecopolicy Center for Agriculture, the Environment, and Resource Issues,
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, Cook College, Rutgers, The
State University of New Jersey.
The Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS) has
collected information on angler trip costs. Arguably though, this cost
information shows only a portion of the economic mechanisms at work. The
economic contribution of charter and party boat businesses is an area which is
little understood and there exists something of an information gap where data
on costs and profits is greatly lacking. For example, in addition to the
gross sales from boat trips, additional revenues and employment are generated
from repair services, bait and tackle shops, lodging, restaurants, and other
support industries.
McCay, Bonnie J. and Svein Jentoft (1998). "Market or Community
Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research."
Human Organization, 57(1): 21-29.
The best known revisionist perspective on the so-called tragedy of the
commons underscores important conceptual and hence policy errors and has been
important in contributing to understanding of conditions in which collective
action for common benefits, with respect to common pool resources, can take
place. Characterizing this perspective as a thin or abstract, generalizing
explanatory model, with strengths and weaknesses thereby, we discuss a
thicker or more ethnographic perspective that emphasizes the importance of
specifying property rights and their embeddedness within discrete and changing
historical moments, social and political relations. We argue that this
perspective leads to a focus on community failure rather than market
failure as the presumed cause of environmental problems, and hence, to
questions about how markets, states, and other external and internal factors
affect the capacities of communities and user-groups to respond adequately to
environmental change.
McCay, Bonnie J., John B. Gatewood, and Carolyn F. Creed (1989). "Labor
and the Labor Process in a Limited Entry Fishery." Marine
Resource Economics, 6: 311-330.
We examine aspects of labor in the harvesting sector of the surf
clam/ocean quahog industry of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States in
the context of limited entry. Vessel owners are both diversifying and cutting
back on labor costs through crew consolidation in response to difficulties in
the sea clam industry. A survey of crew-members on job satisfaction reveals
more about the preferences and experiences of labor. We make predictions
about the fate of labor under a new management regime based on individual
transferable quotas. The analysis is intended to bring the interests of crewmembers
in to the decision making process and to improve the basis for
predicting how future regulatory measures may affect crewing.
McCay, Bonnie J., Richard Apostle, Carolyn Creed, Alan Finlayson, and
Knut Mikalsen (1994). "Privatization in Fisheries: Lessons from
Experiences in the U.S., Canada, and Norway." Draft, Symposium of
the Ocean Governance Study Group; "Moving Ahead on Ocean
Governance: Practical Applications Guided by Long-Range Vision,"
April 9-13, Lewes, Delaware, March, 18 pp.
The politics of conservation is dealt with in several ways. The first
concerns the politics of deciding for or against major institutional change.
In the U.S., Canada, and Norway, attempts to create so called ITQs, or
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