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

Market Equilibrium Analysis of the Impact of Risk on the U.S. Rice
Industry." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 69(4):733-
739.
An economic model of supply and demand for U.S. rice suggests that
increases in risk result in decreased acreage and increased marketing margins.
In a market equilibrium context, the empirical results also suggest rice
production and rice prices are more responsive to changes in risk faced by
marketing firms than changes in risk faced by producing firms.
Browder, Joan A. (1983). "Vessel Activity Relative to the Texas
Closure, 1981 and 1982." NOAA Technical Memorandum, NMFS-SEFC-
118, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast
Fisheries Center, Miami, Laboratory, 75 Virginia Beach Drive,
Miami, Florida 33149-10999.
A quantitative description of shrimp vessel activity in the Gulf of
Mexico relative to the Texas closure in 1981 and 1982 has been prepared to
determine if Louisiana ports are more heavily utilized because of the closure,
if Louisiana offshore fishing grounds are more heavily utilized because of the
closure, if vessels have been prevented from fishing by the closure, and if
benefits of the closure accrue to only a small proportion of the fleet. This
is a brute force analysis of some extremely large data sets.
Browder, Joan A., J. Connor Davis, and Eulalie Sullivan (1978). "The
Paying Passenger Recreational Fisheries of the Florida Gulf Coast
and Keys." Draft report, National Marine Fisheries Service, 75
Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL.
Four types of paying passenger recreational fisheries operate on the
Florida Gulf Coast and in the Florida Keys. An estimated 604 captains were
active in the fisheries in 1977. Target species differ with fishery type and
region of operation. Declining catches (catch per unit effort) and increased
operating costs, particularly for fuel, are major problems of these fisheries
according to the captains. In those fisheries where previous information is
available the number of operations has increased in the past fifteen years in
the Florida Keys, decreased greatly on the west Florida coast and decreased
slightly on the northwest Florida coast.
Browder, Joan A., L. Nelson May, Jr., Alan Rosenthal, James G.
Gosselink, and Robert H. Baumann (1989). "Modeling Future Trends
in Wetland Loss and Brown Shrimp Production in Louisiana Using
Thematic Mapper Imagery." Remote Sens. Environ., 28:45-59.
The land-water interface of coastal marshes may influence the production
of estuarine dependent fisheries more than the area of these marshes. To test
this hypothesis, we created a spatial model to explore the dynamic
relationship between land-water interface and degree of land loss in
disintegrating coastal marshes of Louisiana's Barataria, Terrebonne, and
Timbalier basins. Calibrating our model with Landsat Thematic Mapper
satellite imagery, we found a parabolic relationship between land-water
interface and marsh disintegration. Aggregated simulation data suggested that
the land-water interface in the study area will soon reach its maximum and
then decline. We found a statistically significant positive linear
relationship between brown shrimp catch and total interface length over the
past 28 years. This relationship suggests that shrimp yields will decline
when interface declines, possibly beginning about 1995.
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