This paper considers the effects of granting a fishermen's sales organization exclusive rights to sell unprocessed fish. On the assumption that the fishermen's monopolyis able to discriminate between plants and end use alternatives in its pricing policy, the conditions for profit maximization...

Production costs for fresh Atlantic groundfish and scallop processing are examined using direct observation, linear regression analysis, and cost accounting. Assuming that management chooses a production technique where marginal costs are constant over a wide range of production due to...

To value water quality improvements in the Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere, it is necessary to choose an appropriate model of consumer behavior. A number of different travel cost based recreation demand models have beenemployed to value changes in water quality or beach access. Among the possible...

Throughout its history the North Pacific halibut fishery has experienced dramatic changes in season length—most recently a greater than tenfold decrease during the last fifteen years. This analysis estimates the effect on exvessel halibut demand of season length by incorporating it with...

An econometric model for the wholesale and ex-vessel markets of American lobster, Homarus amedcanus, was developed to determine the market impact of proposed increases in the minimum size for American lobster. Prices were found to be inflexible with respect to landing, imports, and income(i.e.,...

Conventional empirical demand systems normally take prices to be exogenous, and determine the quantities demanded. Although this is logical for the individual consumer, at the market level the aggregate quantity traded may be exogenously determined, while the price vector changes to ensure...

The results from graphical and regression analyses of time-series data on seafood consumption and prices suggest that preferences for seafood have strengthened in response to medical evidence that seafood promotes nutrition and health. The graphical analysis reveals a trend of increased...

Many fisheries are characterized by a brief and concentrated harvest period followed by a longer marketing period during which the stored product is sold out of inventories. This paper develops an economic model ofoptimal inventory dissipation for a semi-perishable product which assumesthat...

A consumer survey of the northeastern United States was conducted to gather market information regarding the decision to purchase fresh hybrid striped bass, trout and salmon. Logit techniques were used to model the experience, perceptions, preferences, and choices of consumers for seafood...

Toxic algae blooms are a worldwide phenomena, which appear to be increasing in frequency and severity. These natural events cause product contaminations that often have significant economic consequences, includingsupply interruptions due to closed fishing grounds, losses from human illness, and...