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Piver's Island Road, Beaufort, NC 28516 and South Carolina Department of
Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, Office of Fisheries
Management, P.O. Box 12559, Charleston, SC, November, 117 pp.
This study summarizes the results of a survey designed to provide economic
information about the financial status of commercial snapper-grouper boats
with home ports between Dare County, North Carolina and Dade County, Florida.
A survey questionnaire was administered in the summer and fall of 1994 by
interviewers in face-to-face meetings with owners or operators of randomly
selected boats. Fishermen were asked for background information about
themselves and their boats, their capital investments in boat and equipment,
and about their average catches, revenues and costs per trip for their two
most important kinds of fishing trips for species in the snapper-grouper
complex during 1993. Respondents were characterized with regard to their
dependence on the commercial snapper-grouper fishery as a source of household
income. Boats were described in terms of their physical and financial
characteristics. The different kinds of fishing trips were identified by the
species that generated the greatest revenue and grouped into six general
categories: trips for temperate, mid-shelf species; trips for tropical
snappers; trips for deep water groupers and tilefish; trips with pots for
black sea bass; trips for greater amberjack; and trips for king mackerel.
Average catches, revenues, routine trip costs and net operating revenues per
boat per trip and per boat per year were estimated for each category of
fishing trips.
This survey constitutes the first, comprehensive source of baseline
information about the financial status of snapper-grouper boats along the
Atlantic seaboard. In addition to its descriptive value, data collected
during this study will aid in future examinations of the economic effects of
various regulations on commercial snapper-grouper fishermen.
Watson, John W. (1983). "FY 1982 Project Report, Sea Turtle Excluder
Trawl." Draft report, Division of Harvesting Systems and Surveys,
Mississippi Laboratories, Southeast Fisheries Center, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
The turtle excluder trawl project goal for FY 1982 was to encourage and
accelerate voluntary use of the TED technology in the southeastern shrimp
fishery by documenting and demonstrating potential benefits to the shrimping
industry. Potential benefits of TED technology include reduction of unwanted
and troublesome bycatch organisms including finfish, decreases in trawl drag
due to improved water flow resulting in fuel savings, and increases in shrimp
catch rates and quality of shrimp catch.
Watson, John W. (1983). "FY 1983 Project Report, Sea Turtle Excluder
Trawl." Draft report, Division of Harvesting Systems and Surveys,
Mississippi Laboratories, Southeast Fisheries Center, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
Research was completed on the energy aspects of the TED and a model
study and field testing aboard a chartered shrimp vessel completed in
November, 1982. Lighter designs for TEDs were researched. Modifications to
the TED resulted in finfish separation rates of as much as 53% during the day
but only 10% or less at night.
Watson, John W. (1981). "Sea Turtle Excluder Trawl Project." Milestone
Report, Division of Harvesting Systems and Surveys, Mississippi
Laboratories, Southeast Fisheries Center, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
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