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

Landings, value, ex-vessel prices, linear and log-linear demand
equations, imports, reef fish boats household income, number of boats, and net
return per day for owners, captain, and crew for red snapper and related reef
fish species presented in graphical form.
Waters, James R. (1997). "Tabular Summary: Commercial Landings and Ex-
Vessel Value of Reef Fishes in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (Texas to
Monroe County, FL)." National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast
Regional Office, Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Piver's Island Road,
Beaufort, NC, October.
A set of tables listing landings and value from 1962 to 1996 for reef
fish species in the Gulf of Mexico.
Waters, James R. (1998). "Economic Review of the Commercial Fisheries
for Vermilion Snapper and Gag in U.S. Waters of the Gulf of
Mexico." National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional
Office, Beaufort Laboratory, 101 Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC,
August, 52 pp.
This report reviews available data pertaining to the economic status of
the commercial reef fish fisheries for vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites
aurorubens) and gag (Mycteroperca microlepis) in the Gulf of Mexico.
Aggregated data about landings and ex-vessel value received by fishermen
provided information about general trends in the fisheries between 1986 (the
first year for which reasonably accurate species identifications were
available) and 1997. Information about the activities of individual
participants were obtained from trip reports submitted to the reef fish
logbook program.
Waters, James R. and Bill Antozzi (1997). "Likely Economic Effects of
Mini-Derbies." Report, NOAA, NMFS, SERO, Beaufort Laboratory,
Beaufort, NC 28516, April, 4 pp.
A discussion of the likely economic effects of a proposed regulation to
limit the fishing season for red snapper to the first 15 days of each month
using the change in total revenue as a measure of net benefits. The authors
conclude that the total revenue received by fishermen will be reduced because
of the impact the proposed regulations will have on exvessel prices.
Waters, James R. and James M. Nance (1989). "Production Functions for
Shrimping Trips in Inshore Waters." Draft report, NOAA, NMFS, SEFC
Beaufort Laboratory, Beaufort, NC 28516 and Galveston Laboratory,
Galveston TX 77551, May, 34 pp.
Personnel at the NMFS Laboratory at Galveston, Texas, interviewed
fishermen at dockside to collect economic information about fishing activities
in two major estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico: Galveston Bay, Texas, and
Calcasieu Lake, Louisiana. Interviews were conducted between May 20 and
October 30, 1987. This study estimated production functions for trips with
bay licenses in Galveston Bay and for trips with shrimp trawls in Calcasieu
Lake. In one specification, catch per trip was estimated as a function of
hours fished, trawl width, vessel length and time as a proxy for the unknown
shrimp biomass. Another specification estimated catch per trip as a function
of the number of tows per trip, average duration of each tow, trawl width,
vessel length and time. These functions could be used in future analyses of
the proposal to require fishermen to limit their tow times to 90 minutes or
less. Data collection techniques (data collected exclusively between the
hours of 8:00 am and 5:00 pm) allegedly biased the data set and may have led
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