With abalone enthusiasts licking their lips and sharpening their screw drivers for their next treasure hunt this Sunday, some might wonder where all the money they pay for fishing licences go.
Although it hasn’t been formally done for abalone, one of the ways the money may be spent is towards breeding fish for restocking the wild fisheries.
| Aquaculture Economics & Management: Official Journal of the International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management | |||||||||||||||||
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THE ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF THE PRIVATE, RECREATION-BASED AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES | ||||||||||||||||
| Authors: | DanielBryan Deisenroth 1, CraigA. Bond 2, JohnB. Loomis 2 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Source: | Aquaculture Economics & Management: Official Journal of the International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management, Volume 16, Number 1 (January 2012) | ||||||||||||||||
| Page Numbers: | 1 – 21 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Abstract: | This article explores the economic contribution of the private, recreation-based aquaculture industry in the Western United States. New sectors are constructed in IMPLAN input-output software using data gathered between 2007 and 2010 from producers and their direct customers (stocked fisheries). Information from a third survey of anglers in Colorado and California is integrated to predict the short-term shocks that would occur to various industries if anglers at privately stocked fisheries were to discontinue fishing (simulating a hypothetical collapse of the industry). Accounting for both the backward and forward linkages of the private, recreation-based aquaculture industry’s production, model results indicate that for every dollar of fish stocking, $36 dollars of recreational angler-related expenditures are supported, and that the total economic contribution of this industry in the Western United States is roughly $2 billion annually. This is the first study addressing the forward linkages and total economic contribution of this industry. | ||||||||||||||||
| Citation: | DanielBryan Deisenroth, CraigA. Bond, JohnB. Loomis . THE ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION OF THE PRIVATE, RECREATION-BASED AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. Aquaculture Economics & Management: Official Journal of the International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management, Volume 16, Number 1 (January 2012), pp. 1-21, ; | ||||||||||||||||
| URL: | http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4435992EA6DAF558CB3C | ||||||||||||||||
Sometimes we need “accountants”…
