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sharing contracts are privately optimal in a regulated setting, they may not
be socially optimal.
Plourde, Charles and David Yeung (1989). "Harvesting of a Transboundary
Replenishable Fish Stock: A Noncooperative Game Solution." Marine
Resource Economics, 6(1):57-70.
In this study we use a N-person differential game structure to represent
a renewable resource industry in which the decision agents are few in number
and noncooperative (as would be the case, for example, in international
fishing wars). As an illustration we assume an environment similar to that
presented by Levhari and Mirman (1980) to derive a set of tractable
strategies. Although there is no guarantee that the stock size would always
be positive with human harvesting in the Levhari and Mirman case, our model
provides growth dynamics that rule out negative stocks. Explicit solutions of
equilibrium game strategies and a steady state level of stock are derived.
Finally, we demonstrate that in situations when stock size enters the
production function, combined maximization such as an international treaty is
more "conservative" than individual maximization.
Podesta, Guillermo P., Joan A. Browder, and John J. Hoey (1991).
"Exploring the Association Between Swordfish Catch Rates and
Thermal Fronts on a Portion of the U.S. Longline Grounds in the
Western North Atlantic." ICCAT Working Document, SCRS/91/-45,
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy., Miami, FL, U.S. Department of
Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Center, 75
Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL, National Fisheries Institute,
1525 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500, Arlington, VA.
Associations between ocean surface thermal fronts and the swordfish
catch rates of U.S. longline vessels were explored. The study area was the
western North Atlantic off the United States, extending from 32 o N to 45 o N
and from 76 o W to 63 o W. To locate and describe fronts, we used three
variables computed from satellite derived sea surface temperature (SST):
horizontal gradient, distance to nearest thermal surface front, and frontal
density. Most of the fishing effort analyzed occurred along the edge of the
continental shelf, where there was a high frequency of frontal presence. Very
high catch per unit effort (CPUE) occurred more frequently in the vicinity of
fronts than would be expected by chance. The high CPUE variability that could
not be explained by our frontal parameters suggested other, unmeasured factors
also influenced catch rates.
Poffenberger, John R. (1981). "Economic Feasibility of the Marine
Turtle Excluder Device." A report submitted in fulfillment of a
project statement for the Marine Mammals and Endangered Species
Program, NMFS, SEFC, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida,
August, 8 pp.
This report evaluates the economic feasibility of the Turtle Excluder
Device developed during 1980.
Poffenberger, John R. (1982). "An Analysis of Fishery Economic Data
Relating to Commercial Mackerel Fisheries." NMFS-SEFC-101, NOAA
Technical Memorandum, U.S. Department of Commerce, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Southeast Fisheries Center, 75 Virginia Beach Drive,
Miami, FL, March, 35 pp.
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