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

under open access conditions were known before Confederation. Early
recognition of these ills did not lead to an understanding of the basic
problems nor to long-term solutions. In the early 1950's the first economic
model was developed that articulated the underlying causes of excess capacity
and the tendency of overexploitation in open access fisheries. This was
followed by a number of studies that explored the relationship between the
biological reproductive capacity of a fishery and the economic consequences of
managing publicly owned resources under open access conditions. This early
work provides a general framework from which a number of fisheries management
alternatives emerge. Each of six management alternatives, that are implicit
in policy for Canada's commercial fisheries, are assessed in terms of
political acceptability, administrative feasibility, and effectiveness. It is
emphasized that the responsibility of a government fisheries agency is to
manage fisheries resources in the best interest of the owners of the resource
- the nation's taxpayers. A properly implemented license control system would
dissipate, rather than perpetuate, social and economic hardship among
fishermen. This misplaced concern for unproven social problems often leads
fisheries managers to support programs that sacrifice all the benefits that
could be generated from the resource and the resource itself. A management
scheme is recommended that encompasses a simple licensing system, a tax or a
royalty on catch, and a limited variation of the "Grandfather System." The
combination of these three incorporates the main advantages of most management
alternatives while avoiding most of their main shortcomings. A carefully
implemented program that accounts for economic and biological considerations
would improve the efficiency of the industry, improve fishermen's incomes,
minimize social disruptions, help to instill an environmental conscience,
protect the resource, and induce less, rather than more, government
intervention into the free operation of the fishing industry. Probably more
important, the program would generate an economic return for the people of
Canada.
Sindermann, Carl J. (1979). "Status of Northwest Atlantic Herring
Stocks of Concern to the United States." Technical Series Report
No. 23, USDOC, NOAA, NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Center, Sandy Hook
Laboratory, Highlands, New Jersey 07732.
This report reviews the status of knowledge about herring stocks of the
western North Atlantic of concern to the United States, to review the status
of herring stock assessments, to identify critical problem areas and
hypotheses to be tested, to identify critical research needs, and proposes
activities needed to increase our knowledge in areas relevant to long term
productivity of stocks under exploitation.
Sinha, Sujata Bose (1988). "A Graphical Presentation of Economic Data
for the Shrimp Fishery in the Gulf of Mexico January 1981 to
December 1986." NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFC-??, U.S.
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast
Regional Office, St. Petersburg, FL, August.
The data is presented here on an essentially macro scale aggregating
over all species and sizes of shrimp found in the Gulf of Mexico. The first
part of the presentation presents information extracted on an aggregated Gulf
wide basis. The second part presents data on a state wide basis for the five
individual states, i.e. Florida west coast, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and Texas. The third section presents the data on the basis of the number of
trips taken by individual vessels in any year.
Sissenwine, Michael (1984). "The Uncertain Environment of Fishery
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