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Nance, James M. (1996). "Biological Review of the 1995 Texas Closure."
NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-SEFSC-379, Galveston Laboratory,
Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce, April, 27 pp.
In 1981, the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery Management Plan (FMP) was
implemented with a primary objective being to increase the yield of brown
shrimp harvested from Texas offshore waters. Since then, various aspects of
the Texas Closure management measure have been analyzed and reported on by
scientists at the Southeast Fisheries Science center (SEFSC). This report
contains an overview of selected effects of the 1995 Texas closure and will be
presented to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (GMFMC) in January
1996.
Nance, James M. (1998). "Congressional Bycatch Report." Draft report.
Galveston Laboratory, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce, April, 64 pp.
A summary of the biological and economic research accomplished to
address the finfish bycatch problem in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery. The
emphasis is on the biological data collected through the observer program
funded by NMFS and industry by MARFIN. The economic data is summarized in a
qualitative discussion of the problem using preliminary estimates of the
impact of proposed BRD regulations. The report concludes that the interaction
between the shrimp and finfish fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico constitutes a
management and economics problem that is controversial, challenging, and, as
yet, unresolved in the case of most southeast finfish stocks.
Nance, James M. and E.F. Klima (1990). "Shrimp Recruitment Overfishing
Definition." Report Prepared for the Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council.
The purposes of this paper are to highlight recent fishery trends
observed in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp stocks and explore possible critical
index values that could be used to monitor the possibility that recruitment
overfishing could be occurring in the fishery.
Nance, James M., Nina Garfield, and J. Anthony Paredes (1991). "A
Demographic Profile of Participants in Two Gulf of Mexico Inshore
Shrimp Fisheries and Their Response to the Texas Closure." Marine
Fisheries Review,53(1):10-18.
A social study of the shrimp fisheries of Galveston Bay, Texas, and
Calcasieu Lake, La., was made during the summer of 1987 to examine the impacts
of the seasonal closure of the Federal waters off Texas and to understand the
infrastructure and demographic processes of these two diverse fisheries.
Survey instruments were administered to 159 shrimp boat captains; 89 from
Galveston Bay and 70 from Calcasieu Lake. Shrimp-house owners were
interviewed in each region as well.
The results suggest that the inshore fisheries are distinct from the
offshore fisheries. The infrastructure of the two inshore fisheries examined
differ in that the market distribution of shrimp from Galveston Bay was more
diffuse than from Calcasieu Lake. Much more of the shrimp harvested from
Galveston Bay was channelled into the surrounding community than from
Calcasieu Lake.
The distribution of age, years as a commercial fisherman, and family
involvement in fishing suggest that participation in Calcasieu Lake's and
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