These documents and papers have been useful in the development of fishery management positions and policies of the FMA. Feel free to click on the links below to download a copy of any of these papers.

 

Groundfish Buy-back Program:

Groundfish Buy-back Business Plan - July 1998

Pacific Groundfish Buy-back Proposal and the Final Summary and Analysis - Peter Leipzig, May 23, 2001

Benefits of a Buy-back program - by Richard Young, July 24, 2001

Federal Register Notice - Regulations for Pacific Groundfish Capacity Reduction Program, July 18, 2003

Letter sent to Permit holders with ballots for referendum - September 30, 2003

Federal Register Notice - November 4, 2003 listing the sucessful bidders in the Buy-Back Program

NMFS post Buy-Back reprot to PFMC - April 7, 2004

 

Stock Assessment:

Sea Grant Primer on Stock Assessements

 

Permit Stacking:

Stacking Trawl Permits - Peter Leipzig, October 15, 2001

 

Pacific Halibut Bycatch:

Letters on Policy of Allocating Pacific Hallibut as Bycatch - March 1996 to April 1997

 

Antitrust Issues

Ocean Law Memo - October 15, 1980

Letter to Linda Brown from Andy Aubertine, Oregon Department of Justice - November 26, 1996

Wall Street Journal Article on Monopsony - How Driving Prices Lower Can Violate Antitrust Statutes - January 27, 2004