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Costs and Returns of Fishermen in the Massachusetts Inshore Lobster Fishery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

J. M. Gates  and
J. M. D'Eugenio
J. M. Gates
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
J. M. D'Eugenio
Affiliation:
Department of Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island
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The inshore lobster fishery is one of the more important ones in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, accounting for approximately 14 percent of the total landed value of all species in Massachusetts in 1971. Until recent years this fishery accounted for virtually all the pot landings in the state. Despite numerous attempts at conservation such as gear regulation, size restrictions, and prohibitions on harvesting egg-bearing females, the fishery has been subject to rapidly increasing effort and virtually constant landings. In the past decade it has become obvious to many fishery biologists and economists that conservation of fish stocks is a necessary but not sufficient criterion for fisheries management. Resource managers have become increasingly aware of the interdependence between economic factors and the intensity, location and composition of fishing effort.

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Resource and Environmental Economics
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 195 - 210
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Support for the research on which this paper is based was received from the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station, and the University of Rhode Island Sea Grant program. This paper is Contribution Number 1615 of the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station.

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