Overview of articles in this special edition
There are eight articles which comprise this special edition. In
the first article, an overview of productivity change in U.S. Catch
Fisheries is presented by Eric Thunberg and his colleagues at the
National Marine Fisheries Service. The second article features a
case study of a shared stock fishery focusing on the Hawaii
Longline fishery by Minling Pan and John Walden. Dale Squires
and Niel Vestergaard focus on productivity growth and optimum
renewable resource use, and show the relationship between optimal
harvests and productivity. They also consider issues of
identifying the difference between productivity and the resource
stock and the relationship between productivity and time-varying
catchability. Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and John Walden look at
fleet restructuring after a transition to individual transferable
quotas using a relatively new approach called the Färe-Primont
index. Aaron Mamula and Trevor Collier examine productivity
growth of a heterogeneous fishing fleet in the face of changing
harvest conditions. Ben Fissel, Chris O’Donnell, Ron Felthoven and
Steve Kasperski look at changes in productivity on the Alaskan
head and gut factory trawl fleet. The issue concludes with work by
Daniel Solis and Juan Agar on productivity change after an IFQ was
implemented in the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery.