From 2012 through 2013, NOAA Fisheries Service conducted a national study to better understand participation levels in ocean recreation activities in the United States. The online survey instrument was administered to a sample of respondents on a web-enabled panel. Residents from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were...
In 1998, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) launched a series of marine recreational angler expenditure survey in the Northeast (NE) management region (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia). This series was extended to the Southeast (SE) management region (North Carolina,...
This research develops a spatially-explicit model of recreational angler participation in an effort to predict outcomes for the US summer flounder (fluke) fishery under alternative climate scenarios, and inform adaptive management approaches. The mid-Atlantic coastal waters of the US have experienced significant warming in recent years, resulting in noticeable pole-ward...
Two economic base analysis techniques that identify and measure
commercial fishery dependency at the local level are compared. The most
common method, the location quotient technique, uses direct metrics of
economic activity (sales, employment, wages, or value-added) to compare
a local economy with a reference economy. We compared this technique...