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

Species Management Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1335
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD, July 17, 17 pp.
Formal Blue Water Fishermen s Association comments on the proposed 1995
TAC for swordfish.
Bell, Johann D. (1983). Effects of Depth and Marine Reserve Fishing
Restrictions on the Structure of a Rocky Reef Fish Assemblage in the
North-Western Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Applied Ecology, 20:357-
369.
The present study used an underwater observation technique that
accounted for both the abundance and size class structure of each fish species
within a transect area, and was designed to (i) determine the effect of depth
on the structure of the rocky reef fish assemblage, (ii) assess the
effectiveness of a marine reserve as a sanctuary for rocky reef fishes by
examining differences in the structure of fish communities at similar depths
within and outside the reserve, and (iii) describe fish communities at two
depths within the reserve as a basis for monitoring further changes in their
structure.
Bell, Frederick (1972). "Technological Externalities and Common-
Property Resources: An Empirical Study of the U.S. Northern
Lobster Fishery." Journal of Political Economy, 80(1):148-158.
This paper demonstrates the effect of technological externalities on the
production of northern lobsters, a common property resource. An increase in
effort (that is, size of the industry) of 100,000 traps fished will depress
landings per trap for the individual firm by 2.4 pounds. Therefore, the
northern lobster industry produces so as to equate average revenue to long run
average cost. Approximately one-half of the present fishing effort would be
needed to achieve economic efficiency or marginal cost pricing. The goal of
allocative efficiency should be weighted against the strategy to provide
somewhat greater employment, especially in rural areas where labor opportunity
cost is relatively low.
Bell, Frederick (1986). "Mitigating the Tragedy of the Commons."
Southern Economic Journal, 52(3):653-664.
As fish farming has emerged to compete with a preexisting common
property fishery sector, rent dissipation and consequently welfare losses may
be reduced. Fish farming increases the increment to supply resulting in lower
prices and reduces the quantity supplied by the commons (not necessarily
true). Welfare gains accrue only when marginal cost is rising faster than
average cost, which is the usual case in the wild fisheries. Using data from
the Louisiana pond and wild crawfishing industries for 1978, fish farming of
crawfish reduced potential welfare losses by 76 percent. See AJAE article
below.
Bell, Frederick (1986). "Competition from Fish Farming in Influencing
Rent Dissipation: The Crawfish Fishery." American Agricultural
Economics Association, February: 95-101.
As fish farming has emerged to compete with a preexisting common
property fishery sector, rent dissipation and consequently welfare losses may
be reduced. Fish farming increases the increment to supply resulting in lower
prices and reduces the quantity supplied by the commons (not necessarily
true). Welfare gains accrue only when marginal cost is rising faster than
average cost, which is the usual case in the wild fisheries. Using data from
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