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the Gulf of Mexico." Draft report.
This report briefly summarizes available yellowfin tuna landings data
from the Gulf of Mexico and then describes the basic components of a
longlining operation.
Wilson, Charles A. and Virginia Van Sickle (19??). "The Louisiana
Artificial Reef Plan." Draft report prepared for the Louisiana
Artificial Reef Council.
The emplacement of oil and gas platforms off the Louisiana coast has
resulted in the creation of this country's most extensive artificial reef
system. By the year 2000, it has been estimated that over 40% of the
remaining oil and gas structures in the Gulf of Mexico will have been removed
at a major loss to Louisiana fishermen. It was, therefore, imperative that
the state of Louisiana recognize this potential loss of habitat and plan to
offset it either by creating new artificial reefs or by preserving those that
already existed. In this report, sites were selected, permitting procedures
established, and a list of acceptable materials generated.
Wilson, C.D. and M.A. Guttormsen (1997). Echo Integration-Trawl Survey of
Pacific Whiting, Merluccius productus, off the West Coasts of the United
States and Canada During July-September 1995. NOAA Technical
Memorandum NMFS-AFSC-74, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries
Science Center, June, 70 pp.
Results of the seventh triennial echo integration-trawl survey of
Pacific whiting along the west coasts of the United States and Canada are
presented. The coast wide biomass for Pacific whiting was estimated at 1.39
million ton using a new model of target strength to length. Justification for
the use of the new model is discussed and estimates based on both models are
compared.
Wilson, James A. (1982). "The Economical Management of Multispecies
Fisheries." Land Economics, 58(4):417-434.
This paper develops an economic analysis appropriate to the biological
and social characteristics of highly variable, multiple species systems with
biological and social dynamics that are imperfectly understood and parameters
that are difficult to measure. The argument (alien to traditional treatment
of fisheries economics) is that (1) the imperfections of our knowledge and the
uncontrollable variations in fisheries systems severely constrain the range of
economically feasible management options; (2) the social cost of rule making
and enforcement are high when a complex, uncertain, and highly variable
environment is the target of management; and (3) efficiency in this kind of
environment is much more closely related to the adaptive, learning behavior of
individual economic actors than to the traditional notion of input cost
minimization.
Wilson, James A. (1992). "Self-Governance in the Maine Lobster Fishery."
Draft report, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of
Maine, Orono, Maine.
The Maine lobster fishery has long been described as a classic case of
over fishing; both biologically and economically. To the discomfort of
standard management theory the fishery continues to produce high sustained
yields; in terms of biological performance it may be one of the best managed
fisheries in the world. This result occurs without resort to limited entry
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