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

Southeast Fisheries Science Center (1993). "Gulf of Mexico Shrimp
Fishery Effort Report." National Marine Fisheries Service, 75
Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, Florida, November, 37 pp.
This report provides a description of the data and data collection
procedures used to collect statistics from the shrimp fisheries in the Gulf of
Mexico and discusses recent trends in fishing effort.
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (199?). "Endangered Species Act,
Section 7 Consultation, Biological Opinion." National Marine
Fisheries Service, 9721 Executive Center Drive, North, St.
Petersburg, Florida, 28 pp.
Consultation in accordance with Section 7(a) of the Endangered Species
Act on the drift gillnet component of the directed swordfish fishery in the
Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean and the drift gillnet
component of the shark fishery identified in the secretarial Shark Fishery
management Plan for the Atlantic Ocean (includes the Gulf of Mexico and
Caribbean Sea).
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (1995). "Endangered Species Act,
Section 7 Consultation, Biological Opinion." National Marine
Fisheries Service, 9721 Executive Center Drive, North, St.
Petersburg, Florida, 28 pp.
Consultation in accordance with Section 7(a) of the Endangered Species
Act regarding the management activities under the final rule to establish the
1995 catch limits for the Atlantic swordfish fishery and continued operation
of the longline and harpoon components of the directed swordfish fishery in
the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (1995). "1995 Shark Evaluation
Annual Report." National Marine Fisheries Service, 75 Virginia
Beach Drive, Miami, Florida, April, 23 pp.
This report was prepared in support of the Atlantic Shark Fishery
Management Plan. The information presented herein represents an update to the
information presented in the Report of the Shark Evaluation Workshop held at
the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami Laboratory, 15-18 March 1994.
The 1994 Workshop Committee, which focused on the large coastal shark
grouping, found that for many species considered, shark abundance in waters
off the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts is depressed due to fishing
removals. The available catch rate information indicated that the abundance
of many of the species and species groups could have declined by about 50 to
75% from the early 1970's to the mid 1980's. Results of the current analysis
using updated and new information are similar. The Workshop Committee
concluded that recovery of this resource to levels of the 1970's will be slow
(perhaps 30 years or more in some cases), due to the relatively low intrinsic
rates of increase exhibited by most shark species. The Workshop Committee
also concluded that measuring recovery or decline under a TAC implemented in
1993, even with precise abundance indices, may not be possible for a decade or
more. The additional information available for the 1995 evaluation is
consistent with this conclusion. The present report provides updated catch
and catch rate information. The report also provides a summary of management
actions undertaken during the intervening year since the Workshop Committee
met.
The 1994 Workshop committee concluded that the greatest impediments to
improving shark stock assessments continue to be the general lack of species
and size specific catch (landed and discarded) and effort data, as well as
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