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Waters, James R. and James M. Nance (1990). "A Description of Trip Data
Collected from the 1987 Inshore Shrimp Fishery of Galveston Bay,
Texas." NOAA, Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFC-257, 63 pp.
Economic information about inshore shrimping trips in Galveston Bay,
Texas was collected from fishermen at dockside between May 20 and October 30,
1987. This study presents information about fishing effort, operating costs,
landings and revenues per trip for trips with bay and bait licenses in
Galveston Bay.
Waters, Jim and Jon Platt (1990). "Economic Analyses of Alternative
Management Options for the Red Snapper Fishery in the Gulf of
Mexico." Report prepared for the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council by National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional
Office, 9450 Koger Boulevard, St. Petersburg, FL 33702.
Biological investigations have determined that the red snapper (Lutianus
campechanus) resource in the Gulf of Mexico has been significantly overfished
and that regulations implemented in 1990 and earlier years will not restore
the red snapper population to desired levels (Goodyear and Phares, 1990).
This report describes economic implications of management alternatives to
govern the directed commercial and recreational reef fish fisheries and to
reduce the incidental catch and discard of juvenile red snappers and other
species by the shrimp trawl fishery. Economic effects of various management
alternatives on the commercial and recreational red snapper fisheries were
based on projections of future landings made with a simulation model developed
by Goodyear (1989). Economic effects of management alternatives on the
commercial shrimp fishery were based on the results of a simulation model
described by Griffin et al. (1990). This report was reviewed by a panel of
economists that met at council headquarters on June 5-6, 1990, whose
recommendations were subsequently ignored by the authors.
Waters, James R., Leon E. Danielson, and J.E. Easley, Jr. (1978).
"Economic Evaluation of the Shrimp Discard Problem in Pamlico
Sound, North Carolina." Contribution Paper, AAEA Annual Meeting,
VPI and SU, August, 12 pp.
In North Carolina, commercially undersized pink shrimp are incidentally
landed, killed, and discarded during harvest of brown shrimp. This study
analyzed the incidental catch (discard) problem and management policies to
protect pink shrimp. Results showed incidental catch does not generally
reduce fishermen's income sufficiently to adopt a discard abatement policy.
Waters, James R., Leon E. Danielson, and J.E. Easley, Jr. (1979). "An
Economic Analysis of the Shrimp Discard Problem in Pamlico Sound."
Economics Research Report No. 40, Department of Economics and
Business, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina,
February, 47 pp.
The North Carolina shrimp catch is composed of three different species,
brown (Penaeus aztecus), pink (P. duorarum), and white (P. setiferus). Brown
shrimp mature and are harvested in the fall. During this same period the pink
shrimp are primarily in juvenile stages and are below commercial size.
However, because they utilize the same areas, pink shrimp are caught
incidentally while harvesting brown shrimp and are killed. Hence they are
lost to the fishery and represent foregone future earnings to the fishery
since they would otherwise have reached commercial size in late fall and
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