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  • The NOAA Science Board Report on Ecosystem Services Valuation and Its Implications

    Creator:
    Lipton, Douglas
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    In May 2016, the NOAA Science Advisory Board, Ecosystem Services and Management Working Group, submitted a report to the NOAA Administrator entitled, An Assessment of the Use and Potential Use of Ecosystem Service Valuation (ESV) within NOAA: A Report from the NOAA Science Advisory Board”. While the report covers all...
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    • NOAA Social Science Vision and Strategy – NOAA will “estimate and apply ecosystem service

  • The Sport FPIs: A New Instrument in the FPI Toolbox

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    Garlock, Taryn, Anderson, James, and Asche, Frank
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    The Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) have been successfully applied to commercial fisheries around the globe and have uncovered key insights into fishery management success. We developed an extension of the FPIs to consider performance of recreational fisheries. The Sport FPIs were developed through multiple iterations of consulting, piloting and revision...
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    The Sport FPIs A New Tool in the FPI Toolbox Institute for

  • Diversification or Specialization: The Impact of U.S. West Coast Trawl Rationalization on Multiregional Fishery Participation and Effort

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    Kasperski, Stephen and Hsueh, Lily
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    "Rationalization” or the change to catch share management in fisheries has been shown to lead to the slowing of fishing activity, input and effort consolidation, cost savings, as well as new market and product development. The effects of rationalization on fishermen’s behavior become more complex when one accounts for the...
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     Includes all state and federal fisheries  Over 1,000 vessels have fished in both regions between 1999

  • Are Catfish Inspections an Administrative Trade Barrier to Imported Fish?

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    Davidson, Kelly and Kropp, Jaclyn D.
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    The Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-79) amended legislation regarding the U.S. catfish inspection program to include “all fish of the order Siluriformes,” encompassing imported species: basa, tra, and pangasius. Furthermore, the amendment finalized the transition of catfish and catfish-like product inspection responsibilities to the USDA Food Safety and...
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    Exporting countries must prove equivalent standards Photo Source: New York Times, 2013 • Who is

  • Community Fishing Trusts

    Creator:
    Burden, Merrick
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    Catch share programs have been criticized for a variety of social impacts. These criticisms can be traced back to the manner in which certain catch share programs were designed; market-based approaches that transfer individual quota to where it is needed and most wanted. Markets tend to allocate resources to the...
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    strategy • Low debt service • Below market leases to local fishermen • Large immediate benefit to

  • Commercial Fishing Business Cost Data Collection in the Northeast United States: Changes and Challenges

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    Murphy, Tammy and Bailey, Megan
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    Information on the total costs associated with commercial fishing is essential to quantitative estimation of fisheries performance measures that indicate the fleet’s economic health over time as biological, management and cost conditions change. NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) collects fixed and labor costs on a periodic basis through voluntary...
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    Marine Fisheries Service: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Social Sciences Branch 2Integrated

  • Consequences of Recovering Enforcement Costs in Fisheries

    Creator:
    Andersen, Peder and Sutinen, Jon G.
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    The recovery of fishery management costs from the fishing industry is becoming increasingly common among the fishing nations of the world. Countries such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have led the way in applying user charges and other cost recovery mechanisms in their commercial fisheries. The United States and...
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    costs of management – Australia – Canada – New Zealand Recovery of fishery management costs

  • OPP Implementation in the WCPO

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    Cusack, Peter
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    The tuna catch from the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) amounted to 2.86 m mt in 2014, worth USD5.8 b and accounting for about 60% of the global tuna catch. About 60% of the catch was taken in the waters of the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) member-countries...
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    Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu

  • Economic Feasibility of Producing Oysters Using a Small-Scale Hawaiian Fishpond Model

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    Chen, Jessie, Haws, Maria, Fong, Quentin, and Leung, PingSun
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    While studies have long examined the economic viability of oyster industries along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the mainland United States, Hawai`i has had no industry to speak of in modern times. This may soon change due to the recent establishment of a long-absent water quality monitoring program required...
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    operation in the state closed gates in 1997 for “financial reasons” • Possibly due to high labor and

  • Subsidies and Other Economic Controls, and Their Implications to the South Pacific Tuna Treaty

    Creator:
    Miller, Scott
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    The South Pacific Tuna Treaty has existed as a model of international fishery cooperation since 1988.  However, in 2016, changing economic conditions led to an impasse between United States purse seine interests and the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) over payment of vessel day fees.  The impasse resulted in the United...
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    Marine Fisheries Service, On National Rotational Assignment to the NMFS Pacific Islands Region