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  • Journal Article
    Territories of the Lobstermen: Good Ocean Boundaries Make Good Neighbors... and Vice Versa
    (1972) Acheson, James M.
    "The rules for lobster fishing territories are especially critical because they control access to the lobsters and because they have important ecological implications at a time when some parts of the marine resource are being over exploited. "Growing up in an inland area of Maine, I was for a long time vaguely aware that territoriality existed among lobstermen. Only recently, however, did I find evidence of these territorial rules and investigate them systematically."
  • Conference Paper
    General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean: Report of the Twelfth Session
    (1974) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
    "The Twelfth Session of the General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean (GFCM) was held from 11 to 15 March 1974 at Varna, Bulgaria, under the chairmanship of Mr. Z. Ben Mustapha, and with the attendance of the delegates from thirteen out of eighteen Member Nations, and observers from five international organizations."
  • Journal Article
    Value Added, Margins, and Consumer Expenditures for Edible Fishery Products in the United States 1976-78
    (1979) Penn, Erwin S.; Crews, Wenona J.
    "The presentation in value terms of the basic estimates in this study makes it possible to produce analogous figures that can be compared with gross national product value of other industries, and total and per capita expenditures for other food products."
  • Journal Article
    Oyster Seed Hatcheries on the U.S. West Coast: An Overview
    (1979) Clark, Jerry E.; Langmo, Donald
    "Oyster production in the United States has been diminishing for nearly 80 years. Natural disasters (including disease and predation), pollution, siltation, and land reclamation projects have all contributed to the decline. Present U.S. production is not even equal to what once came from the Chesapeake Bay alone."
  • Journal Article
    An Investigation of Cree Indian Domestic Fisheries in Northern Quebec
    (1979) Berkes, Fikret
    "Domestic or subsistence fisheries of the eastern James Bay Cree. were studied, mainly in Fort George, by direct observation. These fisheries were characterized by large numbers of participants, low catches per day and per fisherman, but high catches per length of net used, as compared to commercial fisheries. Most stocks appear lightly utilized, but in the vicinity of larger settlements there is evidence that some stocks are overfished. The total catch may be increased by distributing the fishing effort more evenly over a larger area. Fish resource base of the region appears suitable for supporting local economic development with respect to recreational fisheries and native-run commercial fisheries for the local market, as well as maintaining the domestic fishery."
  • Journal Article
    Southern California Recreational and Commercial Marine Fisheries
    (1976) MacCall, Alec D.; Stauffer, Gary D.; Troadec, Jean-Paul
    "This work should provide significant information for the formulation of positions and plans for regulatory agencies managing these resources. We have attempted to avoid making recommendations regarding the course of future exploitation of southern California fish resources except for the determination of approximate limits of sustainable yields and lower limits on age at first capture. However, where resources are or appear to be exploited beyond maximum sustainable yield, reduction of catch and/or effort is strongly recommended."
  • Journal Article
    Factor Rents, Sole Ownership, and the Optimum Level of Fisheries Exploitation
    (1972) Copes, Parzival
    "In the literature of fisheries economics there is a noticeable preoccupation with the phenomenon of resource rent dissipation. The common property nature of most fishery resources-with the attendant free entry of labour and capital-gives rise to 'problems' of 'overfishing'. If at any given level of fishing effort the resource should yield a rent to the marginal operator, additional factor inputs of labour and capital will be attracted that will depress the catch per unit of effort and lower returns to all operators. This process will continue until the revenue per unit of fishing effort is reduced to the level of its marginal opportunity cost. Thus the rent attributable to the resource, that formerly accounted for the excess of revenue over marginal opportunity cost, is eliminated."
  • Journal Article
    Composition of Catches Made by Anglers Fishing for Summer Flounder, Paralychthys Dentatus From New Jersey Party Boats in 1978
    (1979) Christensen, Darryl J.; Clifford, Walter J.
    "Anglers were interviewed while fishing for summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, along the New Jersey coast from party boats. Mean seasonal catch rates for full-day and half-day anglers were 3.15 and l .86 summer flounder per man per trip, respectively, from 19 June to 1 September 1978. Other fish species made up less than 10 percent of the catch. A total of 828 summer flounder were measured and ages were determined for 427 specimens. Analysis of the age-length data indicates that /I +, 1Jf +, lV +, V +, and >V + age summer flounder made up 4.3, 73.0, 20.3, l.8, and 0.6 percent of the catch, respectively."
  • Thesis or Dissertation
    Economic Efficiency in Common Property Natural Resource Use: A Case Study of the Ocean Fishery
    (1969) Bromley, Daniel W.
    "The common property ocean fishery is often cited as an example of economic inefficiency in production. The usual recommendation is to restrict entry of fishermen so that 'incomes' of those remaining are improved. Such logic would seem to indicate that the economic theory of common property natural resource use is not well developed. It was with this premise that the current investigation commenced. "A mathematical model of productive interdependence among firms in a common pool situation was developed. Following this, the concept of rising supply price for an industry exhibiting productive interdependence was introduced. The concept of a fishing-day was introduced and it was argued that the firm viewed a fishing-day as one of its variable inputs. "When the above concepts were combined With the biological model presented, a bioeconomic model of the fishery evolved. The model permitted illustration of the impact upon industry output from changes in: (1) technology; (2) demand for the product; and (3) fish population; and the chain of ramifications which result, when current production is something other than the sustained yield of the fish in stock. "The usual charge that a common property fishery is 'inevitably overexploited' was evaluated in the context of the bioeconomic model and seen to be false. The traditional recommendation, to restrict entry such that fleet marginal cost equals fleet marginal revenue, so as to maximize 'rent,' was shown, instead, to. merely create higher than competitive returns (profit) for remaining fishermen. The disregard for those: fishermen excluded, by such action was questioned on equity grounds, as well as on grounds of economic efficiency. It was also demonstrated that depending upon demand for the product and technology of the industry, equating, fleet marginal cost with fleet marginal revenue was not sufficient proof that the fish stock would not be overfished."