Build Your Own Reef
This Michael De Alessi Freeman article is from 1997, but private ocean reef construction continues. Here is an article on a state-mandated Edison artificial reef in California. De Alessi notes that: private ownership of...
Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
Whale of an Idea for Generating More Alternative Energy
Vast amounts of energy are available from falling water, especially from major rivers here in the Pacific Northwest. About the only place in Washington state where water doesn’t have a vertical fall to generate...
Want Cleaner Water? Bury a Pumpkin or Eat a Banana
Who knew that throwing a banana peel in the river might help remove toxic metals? (Though I advise further research before trying this). From this Learn and Teach post on research into buried pumpkins...
Federal “No Coral Reef Left Behind” Legislation
User Fees To Restore and Preserve Scarce Coral Reefs Early affirmative cases call for new federal regulations designed to protect coral reefs. However, federal regulations tend to be a less than ideal approach to...
Feed the Microbes that Eat the Pollutants.
Interesting post from Sea Grant Washington, though with broken links, on using microbes to clean up pollution in marine ecosystems: Experts in bioremediation, the technology that uses living organisms to break down hazardous materials...
Florida Oysters and Georgia Peanuts Compete for Scarce Water
Fresh water is scarce and has alternative uses. Should oysters in Florida to be valued more highly that watering lawns and growing crops in Georgia? This June 2 New York Times article, “A Fight...
Mixing Oil and Wildlife at the Rainey Preserve in Louisiana
Richard Stroup reflects on his time at the Department of the Interior trying to explain the key role of property rights in protecting environmental resources. In this short essay Dr. Stroup discusses the Audubon...
If You Care about Fish, Fisheries, or Debating Fishery Management…
If you care about fish and the health of fisheries, or even just debating about fisheries, here is a book to put high on your summer reading list. University of Washington aquatic and fishery...
Catching the Aquaculture Wave
http://reason.org/files/50500045c1add5dc6b89e04ace6e57c3.pdf
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...