Factors that influence discarding in the Gulf of Mexico commercial grouper-tilefish IFQ reef fish fishery

Update on the Economic Status of the Gulf of Mexico Commercial Shrimp Fishery

Energy Substitution in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery

Since 1973, the U.S. economy has shifted from a ability in the fishing industry have been conducted. The position characterized by abundant and low-cost enlack of studies on the substitution possibilities between ergy to one of rising energy prices and fragile energy energy and nonenergy inputs leaves a void in the apsupplies, periodically threatened by an unstable forpropriate information upon...

Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 Cfr Part 622

restricting public access to fishery resources. The most recent control date was a similar control date for the Gulf Red Snapper IFQ program, which published on November 30, 2011 (76 FR 74038). This document considered a control date of January 1, 2012, and stated that anyone entering the program after the control date will not be assured future access should a management regime that limits par...

License Buyback Programs in Commercial Fisheries: An Application to the Shrimp Fishery in the Gulf of Mexico

License Buyback Programs in Commercial Fisheries: An Application to the Shrimp Fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. (May 2009) Aaron T. Mamula, B.A., Oregon State University; M.A, Southern Methodist University Co-Chairs of Advisory Committee: Dr. Richard T. Woodward Dr. Wade L. Griffin This dissertation provides a thorough analysis of the costs associated with, and efficacy of, sequential license buy...

Fishery of the Goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara (Teleostei: Epinephelidae) based on local ecological knowledge and fishery records in Yucatan, Mexico.

The Goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara, a large-bodied (approximately 2.5 m TL, > 400 kg) and critically endangered fish (Epinephelidae), is highly vulnerable to overfishing. Although protected from fishing in many countries, its exploitation in Mexico is unregulated; a situation that puts its populations at risk. Fishery records of E. itajara are scarce, which prevents determination of its f...