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Attaran, Mohsen and Martin Zwick (19??). "An Information Theory
approach to Measuring Industrial Diversification." Journal of
Economic Studies, 16(1):19-30.
Paper presents the Shannon entropy measure of diversity to determine
concentration in a market.
Ault, Jerald S., James A. Bohnsack, and Geoffrey A. Meester (1998). A
Retrospective (1979-1996) Multispecies Assessment of Coral Reef Fish
Stocks in the Florida Keys USA. Draft report presented at the National
Stock Assessment Workshop, National Marine Fisheries Service, Key Largo,
FL.
A baseline assessment for 35 economically and ecologically important
Florida Keys reef fish stocks is provided using a systems approach that
integrates sampling, statistics, and mathematical modeling. Quantitative
fishery independent data from reef fish visual surveys conducted by SCUBA
divers from 1979-1995 were used to develop estimates of population abundance,
assemblage composition, and stock structures in relation to key physical and
habitat factors. Exploitation effects were assessed using a new length-based
algorithm that calculates total mortality rates from estimates of average
length of fish in the exploitable phase of the stock. These estimates were
highly correlated for two statistically independent headboat catches. We
developed a reef fish equilibrium exploitation simulation (REEFS) model and
used estimates of fishing mortality to assess yield per recruit relative to
fishing intensity and gear selectivity, and spawning potential ratio (SPR)
relative to U.S. federal overfishing standards. Our analysis show that 13
of 16 groupers (Epinephilinae), 7 of 13 snappers (Lutjanidae), one wrasse
(Labridae), and 2 of 5 grunts (Haemulidae) are below the 30% SPR overfishing
minimum. Some stocks appear to have been chronically overfished since the
late 1970's. The Florida Keys reef fish fishery exhibits classic serial
overfishing in which the largest, most desirable and vulnerable species are
depleted by fishing. Rapid growth of the barracuda population (Sphyraenidae)
during the same period suggests that fishing has contributed to substantial
changes in community structure and dynamics.
Austin, C. Bruce (1981). "A Interpretive Review of Socio-Economic Study
of Mackerel Purse Seine Fishery." Task II Report, South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, One Southpark Circle, Ste. 306,
Charleston, South Carolina, May, 24 pp.
This report summarizes the results of the analysis and interpretations
of the data collected under task II of a contract to study the mackerel purse
seine fleet in the south Atlantic.
Austin, C. Bruce, Robert D. Brugger, J. Connor Davis, Donald P. deSylva,
and David M. Kittrell (1976). "Summary of a Survey of
Recreational Billfish and Tuna Fishing Boats Along the East and
Gulf Coast States." Report to National Marine Fisheries Service,
September.
An analysis of 700 questionnaires on recreational fishing for billfish
that survived a fire at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science collected in 1967-68.
Azzam, Azzeddine M. and John R. Schroeter (1995). The Tradeoff Between
Oligopsony Power and Cost Efficiency in Horizontal Consolidation: An
Example from Beef Packing. American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
77(4):825-836.
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