CONTACT: Gordon Helm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/12/97
Providing the first comprehensive look at the economic "health" of domestic fisheries, the first volume of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Our Living Oceans: The Economic Status of U.S. Fisheries, 1996 is now available, the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced today.
The report includes a primer of the most important concepts used in fisheries economics, an overview of the U.S. fishing industry from a national perspective, and a region-by-region account of the commercial and recreational harvest sectors, with regional processing and trade information.
This new volume is a companion document to the fisheries service's Our Living Oceans, which annually reports on the biological status of the Nation's living marine resources. Future volumes will provide economic growth and sustainability indicators on outcomes of fisheries management and provide measures of benefits and costs of fisheries management strategies nationwide. The Economic Status of U.S. Fisheries, 1996 provides some baseline measures of economic health so that the fisheries service can begin to track changes over time.
Copies of Living Oceans: The Economic Status of U.S. Fisheries 1996 be obtained from:
Office of Science and Technology
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
1315 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910