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Wilson, Robert R., Russell G. Thompson, and Richard W. Callen (1970).
"Optimal Investment and Financial Strategies in Shrimp Fishing."
TAMU-SG-71-701, Institute of Statistics, Texas A&M University, Dec.
In this study a deterministic optimal control model of a shrimp fishing
firm (Thompson, Callen, and Wolken) is extended by requiring the purchase of
integer (positive) numbers of vessels and is used in developing optimal
investment strategies for shrimp fishermen.
Wise, John P. (1991). Federal Conservation & Management of Marine
Fisheries in the United States, Center for Marine Conservation,
1725 DeSales St., NW, Washington, DC 20036.
The elimination of gross foreign overfishing, and increased production
and consumption of marine fisheries products in the U.S. mask serious
institutional failures. Application the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act has in fact exacerbated U.S. fisheries problems with the result
of replacement of foreign overfishing by domestic overfishing.
Witzig, John F. (1988). "Estimation of Recreational Fishing Trips,
Catch, and Participation." Report, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Washington, D.C. 20235, May, 13 pp.
This report describes the methods and calculations used in the current
MRFSS programs to estimate the total number of fishing trips and catch from
the telephone and intercept surveys. The variable names used throughout this
report are keyed to similarly named variables in the SAS program.
Explanations of the variables are given where they are first encountered.
Witzell, Wayne N. (1994). The Origin, Evolution, and Demise of the U.S. Sea
Turtle Fisheries. Marine Fisheries Review, 56(4):8-23.
Fishing methods, landings and value by area fished, and reasons for the
demise of the U.S. Sea Turtle fishery are reviewed in this insightful article.
Wohlgenant, Michael K. and Richard C. Haidacher (1991). "Retail to Farm
Linkage of System of Food Commodities." Commodity Economics
Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 1775.
A new conceptual model is needed to estimate the impact of demand,
supply, and marketing margins on retail food prices and farm prices. This
model should be theoretically consistent with group behavior. The present
study critiques past approaches to modeling farm to retail price spread
behavior, to emphasize the need for a larger framework for the analysis of
retail to farm linkages. This enlarged model consists of reduced form retail
and farm price equations derived from the behavior relationships that
characterize aggregate output supply and input demand responses of the
marketing sector. The model is then applied empirically to a set of eight
food commodities. The results are generally consistent with theory that
indicates compatibility with competitive behavior and an aggregate constant
returns to scale technology of food processing. The results also show the
need to allow for variable factor proportions between farm and marketing
inputs. Farm level derived demand elasticities are more than 40 percent
larger than those obtained by assuming fixed proportions.
Wohlgenant, Michael K. and Richard C. Haidacher (1991). "Approaches to
Modeling Retail-Farm Price Spreads and Derived Demand Relationships
for Food Commodities: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography."
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