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

Current policy requires that a bid for an Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
oil and gas tract equal or exceed $150 per acre. Otherwise, the bid cannot be
considered for acceptance. This analysis was conducted to address the
questions raised concerning the minimum bid level in Attachment 1 of Appendix
K to the 5 year Secretarial Issue Document.
Martin, Dean F.(1995). "Why Don t We Have More Red Tides in Florida."
Local, National, Global Health News, 5(11), 3 pp.
With the present state of knowledge of red tides, particularly in
Florida coastal waters, the major challenge may be to explain why they do not
occur more often. It appears that at least five major factors are responsible
for this blessing. These are: (1) environmental stress, (2) enemy organisms,
(3) currents and other hydrographic factors, (4) possibly critical-nutrient
limitation, and (5) photodynamic action. The significance of these factors
are reviewed as a guide to potential management strategies.
Martinez, Eduardo X., James M. Nance, and Roger J. Zimmerman (1996). A Model
for Assessment of Ecological Interactions Among Living Marine Resources
in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Bycatch Management and Shrimp
Production. Executive Summary, Report to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast
Fisheries Science Center, Galveston Laboratory, 4700 Avenue U,
Galveston, TX, March, 19 pp.
Excess bycatch in shrimp trawls is seen as an important cause for
declines in stocks of some commercially important finfish, endangered sea
turtles, and other living resources in the Gulf of Mexico. Measures to reduce
bycatch have been proposed to alleviate such declines. These measures may
have the effect of releasing more shrimp predators or allowing small fish to
grow larger and thus become predators. Shrimp stocks might then be impacted
by increasing the incidence of finfish predation. Although the interaction of
shrimp and finfish predators in a Gulf of Mexico estuary has been described in
detail, limited information is available regarding shrimp predation in
offshore waters, and its effect on shrimp stocks. Development of an ecosystem
based model is desirable to guide research and management. However, it is
important to remember that predictive results of such models are based on
assumptions and the quality information available.
Marullo, Frank (1973). "An Automatic Pumping Device for Sampling
Postlarval Shrimp (Penaeus spp.)." Marine Fisheries Review, 35(3-
4):24-26.
Described is an automatic sampling device used to collect and preserve
postlarval shrimp. At timed intervals, seawater is pumped through collecting
nets that retain samples of organisms including shrimp. A maximum of 12
samples can be collected in 24 hours. Each sample is preserved immediately in
10 percent Formalin. These samples may be removed once after each 24 hours of
operation, or they may be accumulated with similar samples over a longer
period of time. Comparisons is made between catches with the automatic device
and those made with the Renfro beam trawl.
Mason, Charles F., Todd Sandler, and Richard Cornes (1988).
"Expectations, the Commons, and Optimal Group Size." Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, 15:99-110.
This article derives a formula for the optimal number of exploiters of a
commons, whose output is sold in an imperfectly competitive market and whose
exploiters hold nonzero or non-Nash conjectures. We express the optimal
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