annotated bibliography of fisheries economics literature - Office of ...

World Wildlife Fund and the Center for Marine Conservation (1993).
Limited Access Management: A Guidebook To Conservation, Draft
Report for the Workshop held in Annapolis, Maryland, September 20-
22, 1992.
A draft report of the workshop on limiting access to the fisheries.
Wright, Gavin (1990). "The Origins of American Industrial Success,
1879-1940." American Economic Review, 80(4):651-668.
The United States became the world's preeminent manufacturing nation at
the turn of the twentieth century. This study considers the bases for this
success by examining the factor content of trade in manufactured goods.
Surprisingly, the most distinctive characteristic of U.S. manufacturing
exports was intensity in nonreproducible natural resource; furthermore, this
relative intensity was increasing between 1880 and 1920. The study then asks
whether resource abundance reflected geological endowment or greater
exploitation of geological potential. It was mainly the latter.
Wright, Sam (1981). "Contemporary Pacific Salmon Fisheries Management."
North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 1:29-40.
Successful salmon fisheries management requires effective data systems,
advance planning, well-supported spawning escapement objectives, dependable
population-size determinations and recognition of practical differences
between recreational and commercial fisheries. Ocean fisheries must be
managed to ensure an escapement from the ocean that will support viable
"inside" fisheries as well as meet spawning requirements, while the key to
commercial net fisheries management inside is the ability to make accurate,
in-season assessments of the runs. A manager's primary client must be the
resource, not user groups. In this context, an adequate surplus of fish is
required before a fishery is permitted rather than proof of overfishing before
a fishery is closed. Management should normally attempt to maximize sustained
yields, but this can be legitimately modified by economic considerations in
both recreational and commercial fisheries management. Management of mixed
stocks of hatchery and wild fish is a major challenge for today's manager who
needs to be directly involved in salmon-enhancement planning.
Yahaya, Jahara (1988). "Fishery Management and Regulation in Peninsular
Malaysia: Issues and Constraints." Marine Resource Economics,
5(2):83-98.
In Malaysia, the official view held by fishery managers is that fishery
resources in the inshore waters (0-12 miles) have been biologically
overfished. This has prompted the introduction of new management policies
such as license limitation, allocation of fishing grounds, and mesh size
regulation. The paper examines a number of issues and constraints confronting
the implementation of these policies. In most tropical fisheries countries
like Malaysia, these issues and constraints are more complicated than mere
operational difficulties (enforcement problems, bureaucratic inefficiencies,
etc.) commonly associated with fishery management in the developed countries.
This stems from not only the dualistic nature of the Malaysian fisheries
sector - that is, large scale commercialized fisheries on the one hand, and
traditional small scale artisal fisheries on the other - but also the glaring
socioeconomic inequalities between the two. Worse still, while the majority
of the commercialized fishermen are Chinese, the artisanal fishermen are
predominantly malays - and the New Economic Policy (NEP) seeks to reduce the
economic imbalance between races in the country. The paper also examines the
potential effects of the license limitation, allocation of fishing grounds and
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