annotated bibliography of fisheries economics literature - Office of ...

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Proposed organizational outline for the FAO expert consultation group on
global overcapacity in fisheries. Outlines for background papers on measuring
overcapacity and guidelines for controlling overcapacity are included as well
as a proposed list of participants.
Mace, Pamela, L. Botsford, J. Collie, W. Gabriel, P. Goodyear, J. Powers, V.
Restrepo, A. Rosenberg, M. Sissenwine, G. Thompson, and J. Witzig
(1996). Scientific Review of Definitions of Overfishing in U.S.
Fishery Management Plans. Supplemental Report, NOAA Technical
Memorandum, NMFS-F/SPO-21, September, 20 pp.
A class of biological reference points, referred to as non-equilibrium
measures of spawning potential ratio, that have been proposed and used to
measure current stock status with respect to overfishing are reviewed. These
are commonly used as reference points for fisheries in the southeastern U.S.
(e.g. red snapper and mackerel) but were omitted from the report Scientific
Review of Definition of Overfishing in U.S. Fishery Management Plans.
Example calculations for simulated and real fish stocks are included. The
report recommends the adoption of static and transitional SPR as a measure of
overfishing and in rebuilding plans, respectively.
Macinko, Seth (1993). "Investigation of the Basic Bioeconomic Dynamics
of Bycatch Problems in Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management." Draft
final report, S/K Award No. NA27FD0068-01, November, 44 pp.
A stylized model of a set of Gulf fisheries is developed to investigate
the bioeconomic characteristics of bycatch problems. The simulation run
isolate three distinct effects attributable to the introduction of a bycatch
reduction device (BRD) into the fishery for stock X; a bycatch catchability
effect; an operating cost effect; and a target species catchability effect.
The BRD does not result in increases in stock size for species Y, it does
increase recreational and commercial fishing effort for species Y
substantially, and it increases fishing pressure in the fishery for species X.
Macinko, Seth (1993). "Public or Private?: United States Commercial
Fisheries Management and the Public Trust Doctrine, Reciprocal
Challenges." Natural Resources Journal, 33:919-955.
This article explores contemporary debates over property rights in
United States fisheries in the context of the public trust doctrine. The
debate surrounding the privatization of harvesting rights in the halibut and
sablefish fisheries off Alaska is used as a case study. The public trust
perspective guides a new reading of the Alaska debate offering insight into
current conceptualizations of both property rights in fisheries and the public
trust doctrine itself. A contextual analysis of the early public trust
doctrine reveals a strong symmetry between the debate over the early doctrine
and that over the Alaska fisheries. both are debates over fundamental ideas
regarding the interrelationships between natural resources, rights, equity,
progress, and nationhood. A public trust-driven reading of the Alaska debate
reveals how much our ideas about rights, and consequently about the public
trust doctrine itself, have changed. In our quest for environmental
preservation we have all but abandoned earlier public trust doctrine in
exchange for the malleability of current articulations of the doctrine.
Macinko, Seth (1994). "Investigation of the Basic Bioeconomic Dynamics
of Bycatch Problems in Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management." Final
report, S/K Award No. NA27FD0068-01, November, 44 pp.
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