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Sandal, Leif K. and Stein Ivar Steinshamn (1997). A Stochastic Feedback
Model for Optimal Management of Renewable Resources. Natural Resource
Modeling, 10(1):31-51.
Analytical expressions for optimal harvest of a renewable resource stock
which is subject to a stochastic process are found. These expressions give
the optimal harvest as an explicit feedback control law. All relations in the
model, including the stochastic process, may be arbitrary functions of the
state variable (stock). The objective function, however, is at most a
quadratic function in the control variable (yield). A quadratic objective
function includes the cases of downward sloping demand and increasing marginal
costs which are the most common sources for nonlinearities in the economic
part of the model. When it is assumed that there is a moratorium on harvest
for stock sizes below a certain level (biological barrier), it is shown that
the barrier requirements influence the optimal harvest paths throughout.
Sanders, Nathaniel, Jr., David M. Donaldson, and Perry A. Thompson
(eds.) (1990). "SEAMAP Environmental and Biological Atlas of the
Gulf of Mexico, 1987." Number 22, Gulf States Marine Fisheries
Commission, November, 337 pp.
The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) is a
State/Federal/University program for the collection, management, and
dissemination of fishery independent data in the United States waters of the
Gulf of Mexico. A major SEAMAP objective is to provide the large,
standardized data base needed by management agencies, industry, and scientists
to wisely manage and develop fishery resources for the least possible cost.
This report is the sixth in a series of SEAMAP environmental and biological
atlases that presents such data in a summarized form collected during the 1987
SEAMAP surveys.
Sandler, Todd and Frederic P. Sterbenz (1990). "Harvest Uncertainty and
the Tragedy of the Commons." Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management, 18:155-167.
This paper demonstrates that a fixed number of risk averse firms faced
with harvest uncertainty owing to resource stock uncertainty will typically
reduce their exploitation of a commons. In addition, the total exploitation
of the industry will decrease when entry is permitted and uncertainty is
compared with certainty. This result holds for perfectly competitive output
markets and also characterizes imperfectly competitive output markets with
linear market demand and risk neutral firms. In the latter case, the socially
optimum number of firms is determined based upon the degree of uncertainty,
the price elasticity of market demand, and the elasticity of input
productivity.
Sarthou, Cynthia M. (1996). Letter to Wayne Swingle, Gulf of Mexico Fishery
Management Council, September, 20 th , 2 pp.
Letter expressing the concern of the Gulf Restoration Network about the
decline in large coastal shark populations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sather, J. Henry and Patricia J. Ruta Stuber (tech. Coordinators)
(1984). "Proceedings of the National Wetland Values Assessment
Workshop." May 23-26, 1983, Alexandria, Virginia. Fish and
Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
This is a summary of the information emanating from the Wetland Values
Assessment Workshop.
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