Aquacultural Economics Bibliography 



JOHN VONDRUSKA 1 



ABSTRACT 



This aquacultural economics bibliography includes recent published and some unpublished 

 United States and foreign literature (originally in or translated into English). Based upon U.S. 

 aquacultural activity and interests, the 262 entries are listed alphabetically within eight categories: 

 catfish, trout, salmon, oysters and other mollusks, shrimp and other crustaceans, other animal 

 species, seaweeds, and general. Included literature concerns production economics, methodology, de- 

 mand, supply, markets and marketing, institutions, constraints, state of the art, investment analysis, 

 data, and other subjects. Some entries are general, or primarily descriptive, or of primarily non- 

 economic content. 



INTRODUCTION 



Contents 



The following discussion is intended to help users find 

 entries of interest. An author index follows the entries. 

 Entries are alphabetized by author name in eight 

 categories: 



Catfish 



1- 66 (also 176) 



Trout 



67- 81 (also 38, 51, 52, 





176, 201) 



Salmon 



82- 97 (also 176) 



Oysters and other 





mollusks 



98-120 (also 85, 176, 24 



Shrimp and other 





crustaceans 



121-144 (also 171, 176) 



Other animal species 



145-161 



Seaweeds 



162-169 (also 225) 



General (not species 





specific) 



170-262 



Enterprise budgets (tables or statements of revenue, 

 costs, and returns for a specified period of operation or 

 for a production cycle) are available for most of the plant 

 and animal species being cultured. These statements 

 vary in purpose, sophistication, and completeness. 



Investment, optimizing, systems analysis, engineering 

 design, benefit cost, and other models have been applied 

 to aquaculture, including the following examples. Mange 

 and Thompson applied an investment decision model to 

 catfish farming. Pinchuk applied linear programing to 

 optimize fish culture production in the Donetsk region, 

 Russia. Engineering design and systems analysis models 

 have been applied to closed system oyster culture by 

 Costello, Marsh, and others. This bibliography includes 

 benefit cost analyses of salmon hatchery programs by 



'Economic and Marketing Research Division, National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service, NOAA, Washington, DC 20235. 



Bollman; Richards; and Wahle, Vreeland, and Lander. 

 Johnston and Allen, and Schuur, Allen, and Bottsford 

 discussed applications of computerized budget, systems, 

 and engineering design models to lobster culture. Shang 

 has applied net present value investment models to 

 prawns, baitfish, and eel in separate studies. 



Market functions, problems, surveys, channel iden- 

 tification, and other marketing matters are the concern 

 of entries in this bibliography relating to catfish, trout, 

 pan-sized salmon, oysters, crawfish, baitfish, and other 

 fish. 



Empirical demand relationships have been estimated 

 for products dependent on aquaculture. These products 

 vary in their degree of similarity to like or competing 

 products dependent on conventional capture (natural or 

 wild stock) fisheries. Miller and Nash, and Raulerson 

 and Trotter reported results for catfish. Agnello and 

 Donnelley, and Charbonneau provided simultaneous 

 equation results for oysters. Ffrench's results relate to 

 seaweeds, and Shang's to eels. The multination analysis 

 of all fishery products by Bell et al. included some cul- 

 tured products or fish. 



Regional, natural resource, and/or economic develop- 

 ment in relation to aquaculture have been considered by 

 many authors in overview, prognostic, and analytical 

 reports involving different approaches and disciplines. 

 Among the treatments and approaches most familiar to 

 economists are those of Gates on less developed coun- 

 tries; Bell and Canterbery on technology tranfer; Landis 

 on technology assessment; and those relating to 

 traditions, adoptive or innovative behavior, and the 

 effects of social, political, and economic institutions in 

 oyster culture. 



Some of the papers concerning the legal and in- 

 stitutional aspects of aquaculture are included in this 

 bibliography, for example, salmon — Manhnken, Novotny, 

 and Joyner; oysters — Matthieesen; general (not species 

 specific) — Cowan, Henry, Rutka, and Trimble. 



Aquaculture and pollution pose a variety of problems. 

 Odum analyzed the relationships and effects. Revenue, 

 cost, and return figures for various systems are provided 



