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Waters, James R. (1995). "Management with Individual Transferable
Quotas in a Multispecies Fishery." Draft, National Marine
Fisheries Service, 101 Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, North
Carolina, January.
This paper examines the conditions under which management with
individual transferable quotas might be successfully implemented in a
multispecies fishery. The first section briefly describes the concept of
individual transferable quotas, while the second and third sections identify
its advantages and disadvantages as a method of fishery management. More
detailed discussions are available in the papers by Waters (1991) and Copes
(1986). The fourth section examines the complications of applying individual
transferable quotas in a multispecies fishery and identifies conditions under
which the method might be successfully implemented. The fifth section
discusses several characteristics of the snowy grouper and tilefish fisheries
along the U.S. south Atlantic coast to see if individual transferable quotas
are likely to be successful if implemented there.
Waters, James R. (1995). A Model of Commercial Fishing Behavior.
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office,
Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC, August.
A discreet trip level model of commercial fishing firm behavior in a
multi-species fishery using individual transferable quotas.
Waters, James R. (1996). "Economic Aspects of a 14 vs. 15 Inch Minimum
Size Limit for Red Snapper in the Gulf of Mexico." National Marine
Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office, Beaufort Laboratory,
101 Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC, August.
An economic analysis of a recent proposal to reduce the minimum size
limit for red snapper from 15 to 14 inches determines a net benefit of $23,650
change in revenue for one year in the fishery.
Waters, James R. (1996). "An Economic Survey of Commercial Reef Fish
Vessels in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico." National Marine Fisheries
Service, Southeast Regional Office, Beaufort Laboratory, 101
Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC, July.
This report summarizes the results of a survey of reef fish fishermen in
the southeastern U.S. waters. The primary objective of the survey was to
collect information needed to describe the financial performance of commercial
reef fish vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. Results are presented in terms of
group averages, frequency distributions, and other methods of summarization as
needed to maintain the confidentiality of individual respondents. The
ultimate aim of the study is to determine the economic effects of regulation
in the commercial reef fish fishery. Regulation affects fishermen through
constraints on how and when they may fish and what they may catch and keep.
The economic effects of a particular rule would be calculated as the
difference between net revenues with and without that rule.
Waters, James R. (1997). "Graphical Summary of Economic Trends in the
Commercial Red Snapper Fishery of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico."
National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional Office,
Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC,
October.
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