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

Rothschild, Brian J., A.F. Sharov, and A.Y. Bobyrev (1997). "Red
Snapper Stock Assessment and Management for the Gulf of Mexico."
Final report submitted to the Office of Science and Technology,
National Marine Fisheries Service by the Center for Marine Science
and Technology, University of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth,
Massachusetts, December, 173 pp.
This is an independent scientific stock assessment of the status of the
red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico as mandated by Congress to determine the
status of the stock, appropriateness of the current assessment models,
soundness of results and conclusions from the existing stock assessment, level
of uncertainty, stock restoration management measures, and their consistency
with the precautionary approach to fisheries.
Rottmann, R.W. and J.V. Shireman (1988). "Management of Water Quality
for Fish." Circular 715, Cooperative Extension Service,
University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural
Sciences, 18 pp.
The purpose of this publication is to assist the Florida fish farmer or
pond owner in pond management. The text Water Quality Management for Pond
Fish Culture by Claude E. Boyd is an excellent source of more detailed
information on the subject and is recommended reading. This circular provides
a simpler approach and addresses certain aspects of water quality specific to
Florida not covered in Boyd's book.
Roy, Noel (1998). Fishing Behavior and the Length of the Fishing Season.
Marine Resource Economics, 13(3):193-213.
The basic hypothesis of this paper is that the amount of fishing that a
fish harvester undertakes during a year is not determined entirely by
circumstances that are exogenous to the fisher, such as weather conditions and
resource availability, but is also partially a matter of individual choice.
The paper develops a behavioral model of fishing from the perspective that the
decision to modify the period of time over which fishing takes place is
governed by a comparison of the marginal benefits and costs of doing so. The
model is tested econometrically as an error-components model using a 10%
longitudinal sample of recipients of seasonal fishermen s unemployment
insurance benefits in Newfoundland over the period 1971-93. The result
suggest that the Canadian unemployment insurance program has reduced the
length of the fishing season in Newfoundland by about 8-10 weeks.
Ruddle, Kenneth (1988). "Social Principles Under Traditional Inshore
Fishery Management Systems in the Pacific Basin." Marine Resource
Economics, 5:351-363.
Among fisheries management schemes, those based on sole ownership
concepts have been relatively little studied. This concept has been most
widely applied in the traditional fisheries management or sea tenure systems
of the Pacific Basin, where unlike the West, sole ownership resides in the
community or other small social group. Information on Pacific Basin sea
tenure systems remains largely anecdotal and unsynthesized. In a partial
attempt to overcome that, this article defines and exemplifies six social
principles common to many traditional systems of sea tenure in inshore
fisheries management in the Pacific Basin, with reference to Oceanian islands,
and based on an examination of the literature and supplementary field
research. These principles are that: (1) sea rights depend on social status,
(2) resource exploitation is governed by sue rights, 93) resource territories
are defined, (4) marine resources are controlled by traditional authorities,
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