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Squires, Dale (1994). "Sources of Growth in Marine Fishing Industries."
Marine Policy, 18(1):5-18.
Policy makers and fishery managers require accurate overviews of the
performance of their harvesting sectors; trends in effective, as opposed to
nominal, effort; and productivity creep due to unmeasurable factors.
Traditional measures of nominal effort can lead to biased performance measures
sine fishing effort is a multidimensional concept not readily captured by
nominal measures. This paper evaluates the sources of growth in catch over
time according to its constituent components - the growth accounting framework
- to measure trends in catch, nominal, and effective effort, and productivity
or fishing power. An empirical study of the U.S. Pacific coast groundfish
trawl fishery indicates that traditional measures of effort and fishing power
can be biased and highlights the relative importance of growth in productivity
or fishing power as an often overlooked and perhaps the most important source
of growth.
Squires, Dale (1998). "Proposal for Continuation of Technical Working
Group on Defining and Measuring Capacity in Fisheries." Draft
report, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, CA 92038, August, pp. 31.
Proposal calling fro the continuation of a joint FAO, U.S., and Japanese
technical working group meeting to define and measure excess capacity in world
fisheries.
Squires, Dale and James Kirkley (1991). "Production Quota in
Multiproduct Pacific Fisheries." Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 21:109-126.
Assessing the individual firm's technology and costs in a multispecies
fishery allows design of a more effective output quota prior to regulation by
anticipating and controlling for the firm's regulation-induced responses. An
empirical study of a Pacific coast trawl fishery indicates that the firm's
flexibility of product decision is tightly constrained by its technology and
cost structure. Hence, as the resource stock for the regulated species, sable
fish, deteriorates and the trip quota progressively tightens, the firm cannot
sufficiently reorganize its product bundle to preclude increasingly large
sablefish disposal. This defeats the purpose of the production quota.
Squires, Dale and James Kirkley (1992). "Resource Rents from Single and
Multispecies Individual Transferable Quota Programs." Draft
report, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, California.
This paper ex ante analyses potential individual transferable quota
(ITQ) programs for three fish species, two species of thornyheads and
sablefish, in a common property bottom trawl fishery on the Pacific coast of
the United States. Using a dual revenue function, the concept of virtual
prices, and price endogenous, nonlinear mathematical programming, economic
rents and gains in economic efficiency from trade associated with an ITQ
program are evaluated. The paper finds only moderate potential for increased
resource rents from an ITQ program for either single species. In addition,
the potential benefits due to and ITQ program for both species are diminished
by limitations in reorganizing joint production of fish under additional quota
constraints. Justification of an ITQ program as a system for generating
resource rents over and above regulatory costs is questionable.
Squires, Dale, Mohammad Alauddin, and James Kirkley (1992). "The
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