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Somers, Ian and You-Gan Wang (1995). A Bioeconomic Analysis of Seasonal
Closures in Australia s Multispecies Northern Prawn Fishery. Draft
report submitted to the North American Journal of Fisheries Management.
In Australia s northern prawn fishery, seasonal closures are used to
manage the size composition of the commercial catch. While primarily aimed at
short term economic benefits of improved yield per recruit, they are also used
to help reduce the risk of recruitment over fishing. Until recent years,
seasonal closures took the form of a single closed season in late summer to
protect juvenile banana prawns (Penaeus merguiensis) during months of peak
recruitment. However, with the growing commercial importance of tiger prawns,
(P. esculentus and P. semisulcatus) and concern for their recruitment over
fishing, a second mid year closure was introduced to protect subadult tiger
prawns until their main spawning season, which begins in August. In this
paper, we use a simulation model of the northern prawn fishery to assess the
biological and economic effectiveness of seasonal closures, specifically in
yield, income, net operating income, and spawning stock indices. Because
there is no reliable spawning stock recruitment relationship, recruitment was
assumed to be constant; thus analysis was effectively per recruit. Our base
model, with closures between 1 December and 1 April and between 25 June and 1
August, closely resembles the current seasonal closure regime in the fishery.
Using this model, net operating income was found to increase by 3.7% with a
single closed season between 28 November and 14 April, but tiger prawn
spawning indices reduced by an average of 5.6%. A single closed season
between 13 December and 8 May retained the same protection on subadult tiger
prawns as the base model, but increased the net income by 2.3%. Net operating
income was relatively insensitive to closure dates; any opening date between
17 March and 2 June would result in net operating income within 5% of the
maximum.
Song, Yann-huei (1998). Comments Made In Relation to Management of Fishing
Capacity. Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and
American Studies, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan, Technical
Working Group on the Management of Fishing Capacity, La Jolla
California, U.S.A., April 15-18, 4 pp.
A list of important issues in relation to management of fishing capacity
which need to be carefully addressed in the guidelines on fishing capacity.
Sonu, Sunee C. (1994). "The Japanese Market for U.S. Tuna Products."
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWR-029, U.S.
Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest
Region, Long Beach, California, September, 64 pp.
An assessment of the Japanese tuna market and the role that U.S. firms
could play in meeting demand for fresh tuna products. Five strategies are
suggested: (1) farming of bluefin tuna; (2) value added products; (3) direct
sale of fresh tuna to the Tokyo central wholesale market; (4) sale to other
wholesale markets; and (5) direct sales to supermarket chains.
Sonu, Sunee C. (1995). "The Japanese Sea Urchin Market." NOAA
Technical Memorandum NMFS, NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWR-030, U.S. Department
of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Region, Long Beach,
California, September, 33 pp.
Japan is by far the world s largest importer and consumer of sea urchin
roe. The United States has become the largest supplier of sea urchins and sea
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