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Net Economic Value of the Freshwater Recreational Fisheries of New York
Author(s) -
Connelly Nancy A.,
Brown Tommy L.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1991)120<0770:nevotf>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - fishing , recreation , recreational fishing , fishery , wildlife , trips architecture , willingness to pay , value (mathematics) , geography , total economic value , economic impact analysis , catch and release , agricultural economics , economics , ecology , biology , ecosystem , engineering , ecosystem services , machine learning , transport engineering , computer science , microeconomics
A statewide angler survey was conducted in New York in 1988 in part to estimate the net economic value of the stateˈs recreational fishery. Willingness‐to‐pay questions from the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife‐Associated Recreation were adapted to a mail survey format and respondents were asked how much they would be willing to pay above current expenditures for a specific fishing trip. The net economic value estimated from the responses exceeded $284 million for the freshwater fisheries of New York in 1988. Although inland fisheries accounted for 76% of the statewide net economic value, $69 million was associated with the portion of the Great Lakes assigned to New York. Comparisons with a 1976–1977 analysis of the net economic value of New Yorkˈs Great Lakes fishery, which used a variation of the indirect travel cost methodology, showed a major shift in net economic value from trips for warmwater species to trips for coldwater or for both warm and coldwater species. Baseline data are now established for a variety of waterways in New York. Future research is needed to measure changes in value after environmental changes occur.