The economic performance of marine stock enhancement projects

摘要

I reviewed nine marine stocking programs for which biological economic measures of success were available. Only one, the Japanese chum salmon program, appears to be a clear economic success. Programs for pink salmon in Alaska, chinook and coho salmon in the U.S and Canada, lobster in the U.K. and France, cod in Norway, and Kemp's ridley sea turtle are clear economic failures. No economic data were available for striped mullet in Hawaii or red drum in Texas. Incomplete and conflicting economic data for flounder in Japan provide no clear evidence.