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analytical models were developed and estimated. Maximum sustainable yield was
estimated to be approximately seven million pounds while maximum economic
yield was estimated to be 5.8 million pounds annually, slightly above current
levels. Optimum levels of input use are 215 lobster firms each fishing 795
traps. These levels require a 47 percent reduction in the number of firms in
the industry with no reduction in number of traps fished. Specific management
programs considered in the analysis include licensing, quotas, and a harvest
rebate program. For each program, maximum yield levels, costs, revenues and
profits were determined. For the harvest rebate program alternative levels of
administrative costs and related sources of revenue were analyzed.
Williams, Joel Sylvan and Fred J. Prochaska (1976). "The Florida Spiny
Lobster Fishery: Landings, Prices, and Resource Productivity."
Florida Sea Grant Program, Report Number 12, Department of Food and
Resource Economics, University of Florida, February, 50 pp.
The report analyses the trends in the quality and value of spiny lobster
landings in Florida, trends in resource inputs (fishermen, fishing craft, and
gear) employed, and presents productivity trends.
Williams, Joel Sylvan and Fred J. Prochaska (1977). "Maximum Economic
Yield and Resource Allocation in the Spiny Lobster Industry."
Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, July:145-149.
A maximum economic yield model is developed for the spiny lobster
industry and is used to determine the level of economic resources required for
the most efficient level of fishing effort with a discussion of management
implications.
Williams, Mark L., Harold A. Brusher, Barbara J. Palko, and Lee Trent
(1984). "Catch and Effort Data from a Sample Survey of Charterboat
Captains in the Southeastern United States, 1983." NOAA Technical
Memorandum, NMFS-SEFC-139, U.S. Department of Commerce, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries
Service, May.
A sample survey of recreational fishing catch and effort by charterboats
in the southeastern United States was conducted by personnel of the National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Southeast Fisheries Center, Panama City
Laboratory during 1983. The 1983 survey followed a pilot study in 1982 in
which nine captains, who conducted chartered fishing trips off the
southeastern United States coast, were contracted to provide daily records of
their catch and effort (Williams, Brusher, and Trent, 1984. NOAA TECh. Mem.
NMFS-SEFC-129). Since the pilot study was successful, coverage was expanded
in 1983. The purpose of this report is to make the detailed 1983 data
available.
Williams, Ted (1996). Attack on the Sharks. Audubon, July-August, pp: 30-
40.
Shark populations in U.S. waters are perilously low.
Williams, Ted (1997). Murder in the Nursery. Fly Rod & Reel, Nov.-Dec., 4
pp.
The slaughter of juvenile fish by commercial trawl fishermen in inshore
North Carolina waters must be stopped to protect fishery resources on the
entire eastern coast of the United States.
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