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Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries

Summary
Summary

This series of publications aims to help readers understand the different economic metrics they are likely to encounter when working with fish, fisheries, and related coastal resources. There are three publications within the series.

  • Part I provides an overview of the different uses and approaches of regional economic methods and natural resource economic methods, with an emphasis on when each should be used.
  • Part II explains regional economic approaches in greater detail. These focus on spending in specific places, times, and sectors, like those connected to fisheries.
  • Part III explains in greater detail natural resource economic approaches. These focus on human well-being related to resources like fisheries.

Editorial Team

Publications

Part I Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part I: An Overview

Edward V. Camp, Christa D. Court, Andrew Ropicki, and Robert Botta

Understanding the economic importance of fisheries and coastal resources is vitally important for making good management decisions that affect human communities, local businesses, and environment and ecological sustainability. However, economic “importance” is not a very specific term, and can mean completely different things to different people. We reviewed different fields of natural resource economics to and describe the different economic terms most often used. This information can help management agencies and cooperative Extension agents use the correct terminology and teach the correct terminology in their outreach.

thumbnail for publication: Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part II: Quantifying Market Activity

Part II Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part II: Quantifying Market Activity

Robert Botta, Christa D. Court, Andrew Ropicki, and Edward V. Camp

Understanding the economic importance of fisheries and coastal resources is vitally important for making good management decisions that affect human communities, local businesses, and environmental and ecological sustainability. This publication is the second part in a three-part series summarizing different economic metrics used in a fisheries context. The first in the series provides an overview. This second publication focuses on regional economic methods used to quantify market activity. It provides a discussion of the most relevant terms and analyses as well as a brief discussion of how one might proceed with a regional economic analysis that would provide these types of measures for Florida’s fisheries as well as aquaculture and coastal resources. It is intended to assist management agencies and Extension agents, as well as the interested public, who seek to understand the metrics associated with quantifying market activity.

This series of publications aims to help readers understand the different economic metrics they are likely to encounter when working with fish, fisheries, and related coastal resources. There are three publications within the series.

  • Part I provides an overview of the different uses and approaches of regional economic methods and natural resource economic methods, with an emphasis on when each should be used.
  • Part II explains regional economic approaches in greater detail. These focus on spending in specific places, times, and sectors, like those connected to fisheries.
  • Part III explains in greater detail natural resource economic approaches. These focus on human well-being related to resources like fisheries.

Editorial Team

Publications

Part I Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part I: An Overview

Edward V. Camp, Christa D. Court, Andrew Ropicki, and Robert Botta

Understanding the economic importance of fisheries and coastal resources is vitally important for making good management decisions that affect human communities, local businesses, and environment and ecological sustainability. However, economic “importance” is not a very specific term, and can mean completely different things to different people. We reviewed different fields of natural resource economics to and describe the different economic terms most often used. This information can help management agencies and cooperative Extension agents use the correct terminology and teach the correct terminology in their outreach.

thumbnail for publication: Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part II: Quantifying Market Activity

Part II Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part II: Quantifying Market Activity

Robert Botta, Christa D. Court, Andrew Ropicki, and Edward V. Camp

Understanding the economic importance of fisheries and coastal resources is vitally important for making good management decisions that affect human communities, local businesses, and environmental and ecological sustainability. This publication is the second part in a three-part series summarizing different economic metrics used in a fisheries context. The first in the series provides an overview. This second publication focuses on regional economic methods used to quantify market activity. It provides a discussion of the most relevant terms and analyses as well as a brief discussion of how one might proceed with a regional economic analysis that would provide these types of measures for Florida’s fisheries as well as aquaculture and coastal resources. It is intended to assist management agencies and Extension agents, as well as the interested public, who seek to understand the metrics associated with quantifying market activity.

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Camp, Edward V.

Camp, Edward V.

University of Florida

edvcamp@ufl.edu
Court, Christa D.

Court, Christa D.

University of Florida

ccourt@ufl.edu
Ropicki, Andrew

Ropicki, Andrew

University of Florida

aropicki@ufl.edu