The Gulf of Mexico Grouper Fisheries: Heterogeneous Fleet and Expectations in Fishermen's Decision

Hamady Diop, Keithly, Walter R., and Richard Kazmierczak ()

No 35597, 2005 Annual Meeting, February 5-9, 2005, Little Rock, Arkansas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: This study focuses on Gulf of Mexico Fishermen's expectations about their revenues and risks when participating in the grouper fishery using handlines or longlines. Results indicated that expected revenues follow a seasonnal and a spatial pattern. Fishermen using longline are risk averse while handliners are risk takers.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35597

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