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The marine recreational boat fishery in the heavily populated New York
City metropolitan area has not been well described. This paper describes the
1971 catch composition and the distribution of estimated effort over spatial
and seasonal scales and between major vessel types (party, charter, and
private boats) engaged in the fishery. Anglers spent an estimated 2.3 million
hours fishing in the New York Bight apex in 1971, over half of this by party
boat anglers, and caught almost 8 million game fish. Overall effort was about
equal for pelagic and demersal species and was generally concentrated
nearshore. There appeared to be a substantial change in the fishery since the
late 1940's and early 1950's, possibly reflecting socioeconomic trends and
population dynamics of the fish species.
Buchanan, James M. (1980). "Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking." Chapter
1 in Toward a Theory of the Rent Seeking Society, College Station,
Texas A&M University.
As institutions have moved away from ordered markets toward the near
chaos of direct political allocation, rent seeking has emerged as a
significant social phenomenon.
Buchanan, James M. and Gordon Tullock (1975). "Polluters' Profits and
Political Response: Direct Controls Versus Taxes." American
Economic Review, 65(1):139-147.
Economists of divergent political persuasions agree on the superior
efficacy of penalty taxes as instruments for controlling significant external
diseconomies that involve the interaction of many parties. However, political
leaders and bureaucratic administrators, charges with doing something about
these problems, appear to favor direct controls. Our purpose in this paper is
to present a positive theory of externality control that explains the observed
frequency of direct regulation as opposed to penalty taxes or charges. In the
public choice theory of policy, the interests of those who are subjected to
the control instruments must be taken into account as well as the interests of
those affected by the external diseconomies. As we develop this theory of
policy we shall also emphasize an elementary efficiency basis for preferring
taxes and charges which heretofore has been neglected by economists.
Buck, Eugene H. (1995). Overcapitalization in the U.S. Commercial Fishing
Industry. Senior Analyst in Natural Resources Policy, Environment and
Natural Resources Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, The
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540, February 22, 17 pp.
A review of the concepts of overcapitalization in world and U.S.
domestic fisheries, its causes, and possible solutions written for a
nontechnical audience. With too many fishermen vying for too few fish, the
U.S. commercial fishing industry is becoming as overcapitalized as the
resource is over fished. A management regime that addresses open access
concerns appears warranted, as does an overall reduction in fishing capacity.
Nevertheless, significant questions remain. In particular, how and in what
form should access be addressed? In what sector(s) and by what means ought
reductions in capital invested in the commercial fishing industry occur? And,
what is the role of the Federal government in such proceedings? These
questions and several others await careful evaluation by scientists,
conservationists, industry experts, and lawmakers alike, while the fates of
fishermen and the fish they depend upon hang in the balance.
Buck, Eugene H. (1995). Individual Transferable Quotas in Fisheries
Management. Senior Analyst in Natural Resources Policy, Environment
and Natural Resources Policy Division, Congressional Research Service,
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