Bringing Death Valley to Life as a Marine Natural Resource
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence...
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From Slaughter to Tourism: A Whale Shark Window for Your Living Room
Twenty-five years of Shark Week on Discovery Channel! Who knew? Year twenty-six started in August with a week of shark specials including “Sharknado” actress Tara Reid explaining what she learned about whale sharks from...
Republicans Feeling Sheepish About Property Rights for Fishing
In May 2012, a majority of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to bar the adoption of new catch-share programs along the Atlantic Coast or in the Gulf of Mexico. In the...
The Debate Over Catch Shares: Food & Water Watch vs. PERC
Jonathan Adler, in a 2011 Volokh Conspiracy post, notes that catch shares made Alaskan king crab fishing a lot less dangerous. Alder links to a Nov. 14, 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed by Alaskan...
Farming to the Rescue Again: This time for Coral Reefs
Property rights matter. When the only way to establish ownership of coral is by pulling it from the ocean floor, then the private coral trade will continue to deplete coral reefs around the world....
Swordfish: Gladiators of the Deep
After reading the June 15-16 WSJ “Gladiator of the Deep” review of Richard Ellis’s Swordfish: Biographer of an Ocean Gladiator, I looked forward to reading and writing about the book. The hardcopy is nearly $20,...
Breaking the Environmental Logjam
Imagine an environmental conference bringing together leading environmental lawyers and scholars from across the political spectrum. In some cases those attending were the same scholars who as graduate students and activists helped pass major...
Farming the Deep Blue Sea
Interested in starting a company likely to make millions while creating jobs and providing Americans with high-quality, nutritious, and tasty meals? Step one: take your entrepreneurial energy and investment capital to another country and...
Beyond Individual Transferable Quotas by Michael De Alessi
Excerpt below… highly recommended for overview of economics of marine natural resources. I invited the author to give a talk at an Economic Thinking or Independent Institute debate workshop, however he is now senior...
The Economics of Marine Resources
How best are marine natural resources to be protected, preserved, or developed? What policy reforms at the Federal level could protect marine ecosystems, enhance fisheries, and allow other uses like recreation and resource extraction? ...