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National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Center,
Miami Laboratory, Miami, FL, August.
A review of the commercial landings and value of reef fish species in
the southeastern region of the United States.
Waters, James (1986). "Aggregate Models of Limited Entry." Draft
report, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries
Center, Miami Laboratory, Miami, FL 33149, April, pp. 9.
Models for analysis of limited entry regulations.
Waters, James (1986). "Estimation of Production Functions for Shrimping
Trips in Inshore Waters." Draft report, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Southeast Regional Office, Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort,
North Carolina.
A production function describes the relationship between inputs and
outputs. The concept of a production function could be used to describe the
technology of the fishing firm or the technology of the entire industry.
Empirical applications of fishery production functions usually have estimated
either an industry wide production function or an annual production function
for a representative vessel. For example, Griffin et al. (1976) estimated an
annual industry production function for the shrimp fishery in the Gulf of
Mexico. This study uses data from the inshore shrimp fisheries in Galveston
Bay and Calcasieu Lake to estimate catch per trip as a function of fishing
effort and some measure of population abundance or biomass as inputs. Doll
(1988) discusses the fishery production function and its underlying
assumptions.
Waters, James R. (1991). "Restricted Access vs. Open Access Methods of
Management: Toward More Effective Regulation of Fishing Effort."
Marine Fisheries Review, 53(3):1-10.
This paper gives an overview of the economic rationale for limited entry
as a method of fishery management and discusses general advantages and
disadvantages of license limitation and catch rights as the two primary
methods of restricting access to marine fisheries. Traditional open access
methods of regulation can be temporarily effective in protecting fish
populations, but they generally fail to provide lasting biological or economic
benefits to fishermen because they do not restrict access to the fishery. The
general result of regulation with unrestricted access to a fishery is
additional, ore costly and complex regulations as competition increases for
dwindling fishery resources. Regulation that restricts access to a fishery in
conjunction with selected traditional methods of regulation would encourage
efficient resource usage and minimize the need for future regulatory
adjustments, provided that enforcement and monitoring costs are not too great.
In theory, catch rights are superior to license limitation as a means of
restricting access to a fishery.
Waters, James R. (1991). "Restricted Access vs. Open Access Methods of
Management: Toward More Effective Regulation of Fishing Effort."
Draft report, Southeast Regional Office, National Marine Fisheries
Service, NOAA, 9450 Koger Boulevard, St. Petersburg, FL 33702.
This paper gives an overview of the economic rationale for limited entry
as a method of fishery management and discusses general advantages and
disadvantages of license limitation and catch rights as the two primary
methods of restricting access to marine fisheries. Traditional open access
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