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| Title: | U.S. Fish Processing Capacity and Imports of Whole Groundfish from Canada |
| Authors: | Hogon, William
Georgianna, Daniel L. |
| Keywords: | international fishery trade
Atlantic groundfish
fish imports
U.S.-Canada trade disputes
fish processing capacity
fish prices |
| Issue Date: | 1989 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 6 No. 3 |
| Abstract: | Capacity in the U.S. fish processing industry increased with the U.S. fishing fleet following establishment of the 200-mile limit in 1977. As U.S. landings
declined after 1983, whole imports from Canada have increased. Focusing on cod,
haddock, and flounder, this study specifies a system of equations to model the U.S.
processing sector. The model analyzes short-run decisions in processing and hypothesizes that both the hoarding of skilled tabor and the desire to maintain specific retail customers prompts processors to attempt to maintain output when their principal product sources, U.S. landings, decline. Specifically, processors are hypothesized to bid higher U.S. exvessel prices and to demand more whole imports from Canada. Underutilization of processing capacity is found to have a significant positive effect on U.S. processors' demand for whole imports. Whole imports are found to have a significant negative effect on U.S. exvessel prices. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/48544 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 06, Number 3, 1989 |
| Total Pages: | 13 |
| From Page: | 213 |
| To Page: | 225 |
| Collections: | Volume 06, Number 3, 1989
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