OYSTERS AND OTHER MOLLUSKS 



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Agnello, Richard J.; Donnelley, Lawrence P. 



1975. 



The interaction of economic, oiological, and legal forces in the 



Middle Atlantic oyster industry. 



U.S. Dep. Commer., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., Fishery Bull. 73(2): 



256-261. 



Economic, environmental, ana legal forces are contributing 



factors in the decline of the Middle Atlantic oyster industry. 



This paper determines the interactions and importance of these 



forces by guantifying and integrating some of the relevant 



variables into a supply and demand model of the oyster industry. 



The statistical results yield significant and expected parameter 



values with useful information on price and income demand 



elasticities. Also implications of common property legal 



frameworks on resource utilization are revealed. The main 



conclusions are that efforts to rehabilitate the industry by 



cleaning up pollution, replacing cultch, and encouraging legal 



private property rights may have large social values. (Authors' 



abstract. ) 



Subject descriptors: 



Oysters; supply; demand analysis; model. 



099 



Castagna, Mike. 



1972. 



Economic potential of clam operation and economic survey of 



scallop operation. 



Va. Inst. Mar. Sci., unpubl. prelim, rep., 16 pp. 



Preliminary information is provided on an experimental VIMS 



operation at Watchapreague, Va. Estimated capital costs, 



borrowing reguirements, and 10-year flows of operating costs, 



revenues and cash are detailed. Some suggestions for reducing 



costs and improving profit performance are made. [For discussion 



of the biology, cultural technigues employed, and some aspects of 



the bay scallop's economic suitability for culture, see Michael 



Castagna, 1975, Culture of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, 



in Virginia. Mar. Fish. Rev. 37(1): 19-24.] 



Subject descriptors: 



Clams; scallops; costs; revenue; returns. 



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Cavanagh, Carroll. 



1974. 



Luck, management, laws result in Connecticut oyster 'boomlet'. 



Natl. Fisherman, 54(12): 4-C. 



For the first time in decades, a boat began buying oyster seed in 



the narrow lower estuary of the Housatonic River. The seed were 



harvested by boats with small hand-haul dredges. Outside of the 



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