Sink or swim? Factors affecting immediate discard mortality for the gulf of Mexico commercial reef fish fishery

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

Life vest: sink or swim.

Marine and Coastal Fisheries

—The ability of fish to submerge after discarding is often used as a proxy for survival, but this practice underestimates total discard mortality because delayed mortality is overlooked. Fishery managers need a way to link ‘‘sink or swim’’ indicators, or variables observed during capture and release, with delayed mortality rates. We conducted a cage study of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus off...

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...

Sink or Swim: Current Tax Policies Affecting the United States’ Competitiveness Abroad Honors Thesis

1 Abstract This study uses labor productivity in terms of real GDP as a basis for comparing a nation's competitiveness. We evaluate how corporate income tax, dividend tax, and the tax on the highest income bracket affect productivity while controlling for several environmental factors. A set of 24 OECD member nations is observed from 1996-2006. It is found that statutory corporate income tax ra...