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Competition and Conflict in the U.S. Atlantic Coast Menhaden Industry

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  • Vito J. Blomo
  • Michael Orbach
  • John R. Maiolo

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. Fluctuations in the harvest of menhaden off the U.S. Atlantic coast, a common property resource, have caused competition and conflict among the small number of companies, two large and several small, which operate in the fishery. With no strong central management, the resource is not being exploited to the optimum and increased fishing pressure and effort bring, cyclically, a peak catch followed by contraction in catch and industry. The industry, state agencies and federal offices disagree on corrective measures. Restriction of the fall harvest off the North Carolina coast to replenish the stock would call for an extraordinary sacrifice by the North Carolina industry—costing it between $4.4 and $6.8 million to provide increases between $6.6 million and $8.4 million in gross revenues for the rest of the industry from Maine to Florida. This raises problems of equitable sharing of the burden. A bioeconomic computer model quantifies short and long run impacts that must be faced.

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  • Vito J. Blomo & Michael Orbach & John R. Maiolo, 1988. "Competition and Conflict in the U.S. Atlantic Coast Menhaden Industry," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(1), pages 41-60, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:47:y:1988:i:1:p:41-60
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1988.tb02005.x
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