Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

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Project participants published a total of 36 peer-reviewed articles in the reporting period. In addition, 15 papers and a special session on seafood certification were presented at the North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) Forum in Ketchikan, Alaska. The accomplishments and associated project objectives are listed below.

1. Marketing, Niches, and New Products: the demand for ecolabeled seafood in the Japanese market and the impact of multilabeling on consumer choices in niche seafood markets in Oregon were investigated. In addition, an assessment of the value and role of seafood traceability from an entire value-chain perspective was conducted. The potential for marketing Alaskan seafood through local networks of school cafeterias was also examined.
2. Production for Dynamic Markets: the production economics of a number of species and farming systems were investigated: small-scale commercial aquaponics in Hawaii, in-pond raceway systems for catfish farming in West Alabama, carrageenan seaweed farming in developing countries, and alternative feeds for snakehead farming in East Asia.
3. Regulatory Influences on Sector Development: the ecosystem approach to fisheries management and the performance of marine protected areas as management and conservation tools for global fisheries were examined. Other topics investigated were community-driven fisheries management, bycatch management and the impact of information sharing in commercial fisheries, stakeholders’ perceptions on the relative importance of Better Management Practices for shrimp farming in India, and the potential of social network analysis to improve understanding of fishing quota lease markets. A landmark publication on the Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs), a management tool for the standardized assessment of environmental, economic, and social sustainability of global fisheries, was released in PLOS ONE.
4. Assessing Infrastructure and Industry Organization: the impact and magnitude of non-market losses to the recreational fishing industry in the Gulf of Mexico as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were studied.

Aboagye, D.L. and P.J. Allen. 2014. Metabolic and locomotor responses of juvenile paddlefish Polyodon spathula to hypoxia and temperature. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology 169:51-59.

Alvarez, S., S. Larkin, J.C. Whitehead and T. Haab. 2014. A revealed preference approach to valuing non-market recreational fishing losses from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Environmental Management 145:199-209.

Anderson, J.L., C.M. Anderson, J. Chu, J. Meredith, F. Asche, G. Sylvia, M.D. Smith, D. Anggraeni, R. Arthur, A. Guttormsen, J.K. McCluney, T. Ward, W. Akpalu, H. Eggert, J. Flores, M.A. Freeman, D.S. Holland, G. Knapp, M. Kobayashi, S. Larkin, K. MacLauchlin, K. Schnier, M. Soboil, S. Tveteras, H. Uchida, and D. Valderrama. The Fishery Performance Indicators: A management tool for triple bottom line outcomes. 2015. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0122809. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122809.

Arita, S. and P.S. Leung. 2014. A technical efficiency analysis of Hawaii’s aquaculture industry. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 45:312-321.

Asche, F., R.E. Dahl, D. Valderrama and D. Zhang. 2014. Price transmission in new supply chains – the case of salmon in France. Aquaculture Economics and Management 18:205-219.

Brown, T.W., T.R. Hanson, J.A. Chappell, C.E. Boyd and D.S. Wilson, Jr. 2014. Economic feasibility of an in-pond raceway system for commercial catfish production in West Alabama. North American Journal of Aquaculture 76:79-89.

Carbonetti, B, R. Pomeroy and D.L. Richards. 2014. Overcoming the lack of political will in small scale fisheries. Marine Policy 44:295-301.

Danaher, J.J., J.M. Pickens, J.L. Sibley, J.A. Chappell, T.R. Hanson and C.E. Boyd. 2014. Growth of tomato seedlings in commercial substrate amended with dewatered aquaculture effluent. International Journal of Vegetable Science 20:340-353.

Evans, K. and Q. Weninger. 2014. Information sharing and cooperative search in fisheries. Environmental and Resource Economics 58:353-372.

Fehringer, T.R., R.W. Hardy and K.D. Cain. 2014. Dietary inclusion of salmon testes meal from Alaskan seafood processing byproducts: Effects on growth and immune function of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). Aquaculture 433:34-39.

Fonner, R. and G. Sylvia. 2015. Willingness to pay for multiple seafood labels in a niche market. Marine Resource Economics 30: 51-70.

Fox, H.E., J.L. Holtzman, K.M. Haisfield, C.G. McNally, G.A. Cid, M.B. Mascia, J.E. Parks and R.S. Pomeroy. 2014. How are our MPAs doing? Challenges in assessing global patterns in marine protected area performance. Coastal Management 42:207-226.

Grimm-Greenblatt, J., R. Pomeroy, B. Bravo-Ureta, L.X. Sinh, H. Van Hien, and T. Getchis. 2015. Economic analysis of alternative snakehead Channa striata feed. Aquaculture Economics and Management 19:192–209.

Heenan, A., R. Pomeroy, J. Bell, P.L. Munday, W. Cheung, C. Logan, R. Brainard, A.Y. Amri, P. Aliño, N. Armada, L. David, R. Rivera-Guieb, S. Green, J. Jompa, T. Leonardo, S. Mamauag, B. Parker, J. Shackeroff and Z. Yasin. 2015. A climate-informed, ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Marine Policy 57: 182-192.

Lee, K.J., S. Rahimnejad, M.S. Powell, F.T. Barrows, S. Smiley, P.J. Bechtel and R.W. Hardy. 2015. Salmon testes meal as a functional feed additive in fish meal and plant protein-based diets for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) and Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus L.) fry. Aquaculture Research 46:1590-1596.  

Omar-Ali, A., C. Hohn, P.J. Allen, J. Rodríguez and L. Petrie-Hanson. 2015. Tissue PAH, blood cell and tissue changes following exposure to water accommodated fractions of crude oil in alligator gar, Atractosteus spatula. Marine Environmental Research 108:33-44.

Paine, N., F.R. Homans, M. Pollak, J.M. Bielicki and E.J. Wilson. 2014. Why market rules matter: Optimizing pumped hydroelectric storage when compensation rules differ. Energy Economics 46:10-19.

Pomeroy, R., K. Baldwin and P. McConney. 2014. Marine spatial planning in Asia and the Caribbean: Application and implications for fisheries and marine resource management. Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente 32:151-164.

Pomeroy, R., M.M. Dey, and N. Plesha. 2014. The social and economic impacts of semi-intensive aquaculture on biodiversity. Aquaculture Economics and Management 18:303-324.

Pomeroy, R., K. Hiew, K. Ramdass, J.M. Saad, P. Lokani; M. Grizelda, E. Lorenzo, G. Manero, Z. Maguad, M. Pido and G. Goby. 2015. Moving towards an ecosystem approach to fisheries management in the Coral Triangle region. Marine Policy 51:211-219.

Pomeroy, R., J. Parks, K. Reaugh-Flower, M. Guidote, H. Govan and S. Atkinson. 2015. Status and priority capacity needs for local compliance and community-supported enforcement of marine resource rules and regulations in the Coral Triangle region. Coastal Management 43:1-28.

Purcell, S. and R. Pomeroy. 2015. Driving small-scale fisheries in developing countries. Frontiers in Marine Science 2:44. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00044

Ropicki, A.J. and S.L. Larkin. 2014. Social network analysis of price dispersion in fishing quota lease markets. Marine Resource Economics 29:157-176.

Sale, P.F., T. Agardy, C.H. Ainsworth, B.E. Feist, J.D. Bell, P. Christie, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, P.J. Mumby, D.A. Feary, M.I. Saunders, T.M. Daw, S.J. Foale, P.S. Levin, K.C. Lindeman, K. Lorenzen, R.S. Pomeroy, E.H. Allison, R.H. Bradbury, J. Corrin, A.J. Edwards, D.O. Obura, Y.J. Sadovy de Mitcheson, M.A. Samoilys and C.R.C. Sheppard. 2014. Transforming management of tropical coastal seas to cope with challenges of the 21st Century. Marine Pollution Bulletin 85:8-23.

Schwarz, D.E. and P.J. Allen. 2014. Effects of salinity on growth and ion regulation of juvenile alligator gar Atractosteus spatula. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology 169:44-50.

Singh, R. and Q. Weninger. 2015. Harvest efficiency and fishery discards under harvest uncertainty and trading restrictions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 70:72-91.

Singh, R. and Q. Weninger. 2015. Cap-and-trade bycatch management with costly avoidance and stock uncertainty. Marine Resource Economics 30:97-119.

Sinh, L.X., H. Navy and R. Pomeroy. 2014. Value chain of snakehead fish in the Lower Mekong Basin of Cambodia and Vietnam. Aquaculture Economics and Management 18:76-96.

Sterling, B., M. Gooch, B. Dent, N. Maernick, A. Miller and G. Sylvia. 2015. Assessing the value and role of seafood traceability from an entire value-chain perspective. Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety 14:2015-2068.

Stewart, H.A. and P.J. Allen. 2014. Critical thermal maxima of two geographic strains of channel and hybrid catfish. North American Journal of Aquaculture 76:104-111.

Tokunaga, K, C. Tamaru, H. Ako and P.S. Leung. 2015. Economics of small-scale commercial aquaponics in Hawai’i. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 46:20-32.

Uchida, H., Y. Onozaka, T. Morita and S. Managi. 2014. Demand for ecolabeled seafood in the Japanese market: A conjoint analysis of the impact of information and interaction with other labels. Food Policy 44:68-76.

Uchida, H., C.A. Roheim, H. Wakamatsu and C.M. Anderson. 2014. Do Japanese consumers care about sustainable fisheries? Evidence from an auction of ecolabelled seafood. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 58:263-280.

Valderrama, D., J. Cai, N. Hishamunda, N. Reidler, I.C. Neish, A.Q. Hurtado, F.E. Msuya, M. Krishnan, R. Narayanakumar, M. Kronen, D. Robledo, E. Gasca-Leyva and J. Fraga. 2015. The economics of Kappaphycus seaweed cultivation in developing countries: a comparative analysis of farming systems. Aquaculture Economics and Management 19:251-277.

Valderrama, D., S. Iyemperumal and M. Krishnan. 2014. Building consensus for sustainable development in aquaculture: a Delphi study of Better Management Practices for shrimp farming in India. Aquaculture Economics and Management 18:369-394.

Xu, P., Q. Fong, A. Bersamin and B. Izumi. 2015. Fisheries-to-school in Alaska: A food service directors' perspective. International Journal of Economics and Finance 7:142-149.