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

artisanal vessel fishing inside the 6 fm isobath in the Gulf of Paria,
Trinidad. Annual ratio estimates were 9 finfish: shrimp and 14.7
bycatch:shrimp, with the highest ratios observed August through December and
the lowest from late January through May, the dry season.
Mahony, J. (1996). Landings Quota Report. National Marine Fisheries
Service, Northeast Fisheries Center, Water Street, Woods Hole, MA,
April, 2 pp.
Landings of swordfish for year to date and the first half of April by
gillnet and other gear types in the mid-Atlantic and New England.
Mahood, Robert K. (1977). "Socioeconomic Impact on the White Shrimp
Fishery by Opening and Closing Sounds." Coastal Fisheries
Section, Coastal Resources Division, Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, 45 pp.
The study was divided into two phases to accurately assess the economic
and social benefits derived from opening and closing sounds to commercial
shrimping. Phase I consisted of field work, publicity, shrimp tagging, and
monitoring environmental factors. Phase II evaluated shrimp movements from
the estuaries and economic and social benefits derived from opening and
closing sounds.
Major, Philip (1994). Individual Transferable Quotas and Quota Management
Systems: a Perspective from the New Zealand Experience. In Karyn L.
Gimbel (ed.) Limiting Access to Marine Fisheries: Keeping the Focus on
Conservation, Center for Marine Conservation and the World Wildlife
Fund, Washington, D.C.
This paper explores the experience of New Zealand in implementing a
comprehensive quota management system to cover a multispecies fishery
including crustacea and shellfish. In particular it explores the pressures
that have come to bear on the fisheries management process in terms of the
Government s goal to create an economically efficient and effective
conservation regime for the New Zealand fisheries.
The paper will explore the conflicts that arise between industry and
Government on the setting of total allowable catches, bycatch allowances, the
allocation of quota, the establishment of the system and the interrelationship
between conservation, recreational and commercial fishing groups.
The paper will also suggest a range of mechanisms that might be suitable
to overcome the difficulties that New Zealand has experienced in the
implementation of its quota management scheme.
Malvestuto, Stephen P. and Michael D. Hudgins (1996). Optimum Yield for
Recreational Fisheries Management. Fisheries, 21(6):6-17.
Optimum yield (OY) calls for fishery professionals to deliberately and
meaningfully incorporate biological, economic, and social values into fishery
management decision making. This invitation eventually will require a large,
multidisciplinary data base for a fishery, but that reality is in the distant
future. For now, OY compels us to consider a paradigm shift. The new
paradigm would require decision makers to choose a list of essential variables
that would be examined and weighed in concert before developing management
plans. Here, we present four OY management accounts (biological,
sociocultural, economic, and human health) as the conceptual framework for
this OY data gathering. Depending on the mix of user groups, each management
account would generate several important variables that should be considered
as a starting point for OY decision making for a fishery. The suggested data
4 3 0