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

Vessel costs and returns data was assembled for thirty seven vessels,
seventeen of which provided 99.9 percent of wreckfish landings during the
initial year of rights based management. The data collection allowed for the
measurement of the economic values generated by the harvesting sector during
the transition to ITQ management, and an evaluation of the initial functioning
of the markets for harvesting rights.
Richardson, Edward J. and John M. Gates (1982). "A Bioeconomic Analysis
of Carapace Length Regulation for the American Lobster Fishery."
Staff Paper Series No. 82-09, Department of Resource Economics,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
A bioeconomic fishery simulator is used to determine the impacts of an
increase in the minimum size carapace length regulation for American lobster.
While suboptimal from both economic and biological perspectives, the results
show that the proposal would be more efficient than the status quo.
Richardson, Edward J. and John M. Gates (1986). "Economic Benefits of
American Lobster Fishery Management Regulations." Marine Resource
Economics, 2(4):353-382.
A simulation model is used to compare measures for future management
identified in the American Lobster fishery management plan; specifically,
increases in the minimum legal size and a modest reduction in aggregate
fishing mortality are evaluated. The analysis differs from previous work in
that the distributional aspects of the alternative management regulations are
quantified. The results indicate that (1) both an increase minimum size and a
reduction in fishing mortality are economically justified in the sense that
net benefits are positive; (2) increasing the minimum size without an adjunct
regulation to prohibit entry will cause present fishermen to suffer an initial
short term reduction in revenues for which there will be no long term gain;
(3) because increased minimum size can be justified on the basis of consumer
benefits alone, arguments favoring its increase to prevent recruitment failure
are moot as far as a test of national economic efficiency is concerned; and
(4) a program of effort reduction that reduces by 20% the fraction of
available lobsters captured annually is projected to generate $1 of producer
benefits for every pound of lobster landed. Reducing the annual harvest
fraction by 20% results in a level of fishery benefits greater than increasing
the minimum size to 89 mm (3.5 inches), and increases the coincidence of short
run costs and long term benefits among those impacted by fishery management.
Rickards, Lesley J. (1994). "BODC Quality Assurance Procedures for
Physical Oceanographic Data." C.M. 1994/(C+E+L):1, Joint Session
on Quality Assurance of Marine Measurements, International Council
for the Exploration of the Sea, 82 nd Statutory Meeting, St.
John's, Newfoundland, Canada, September, 10 pp.
The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is responsible for the UK's
National Oceanographic Data Bank. This was established both to protect the
long term value of oceanographic data and to make high quality data readily
available to a wide user community. Inevitable in order to meet these
requirements, quality assurance of the data is a prime consideration. Quality
control procedures have been developed and implemented and these are discussed
with particular reference to moored current meter, sea surface elevation, and
CTD profile data. Some quality assurance procedures are common to all the
data types, whereas others are data type specific. Reference is also made to
the qualifying documentation or 'metadata' that must accompany the data for
their full value to be maintained.
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