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| Title: | Lake Michigan Salmonid Stocking Costs in Wisconsin |
| Authors: | Cochrane, Jeffrey A.
Bishop, Richard C.
Ives, David B. |
| Keywords: | restocking costs
benefit-cost methodology
sport fisheries
salmonids
Lake Michigan |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Series/Report no.: | Marine Resource Economics
Vol. 7 No. 3 |
| Abstract: | The costs of stocking salmonids in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan are estimated for 1985. Estimation procedures and costs per stocked and captured fish are presented. Fingerlings of a species were found in most cases to cost more per captured
fish than yearlings. However chinook salmon fingerlings were least expensive at an average cost of only $0.35 per captured fish. Most expensive were brook yearlings and fingerlings at $12.67 and $10.14 respectively. While a full policy evaluation awaits additional research on species specific benefits, three tentative conclusions can be drawn for the Wisconsin
fishery. First, the role of brook trout in the fishery should be reviewed. Second,
despite difficulties with lake trout rehabilitation, the role of lake trout in the
sport fishery is encouraging and may justify continued stocking. Finally, increased
stocking of the popular chinook salmon may be justified if the recent problems of low capture-per-release rates can be solved. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/48625 |
| Identifiers: | 0738-1360 |
| Institution/Association: | Marine Resource Economics>Volume 07, Number 3, 1992 |
| Total Pages: | 17 |
| From Page: | 169 |
| To Page: | 185 |
| Collections: | Volume 07, Number 3, 1992
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