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Expert Opinions on Critical Production Factors for Sustained Growth of the Hybrid Striped Bass Industry
Author(s) -
Halbrendt Catherine K.,
AullHyde Rhonda,
Dunkers Dee A.
Publication year - 1994
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(1994)123<0094:eoocpf>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - bass (fish) , morone saxatilis , aquaculture , morone , business , fishery , production (economics) , natural resource economics , economics , biology , fish <actinopterygii> , microeconomics
Aside from regulatory or technological impediments, economic factors can inhibit sustained growth of the aquaculture industry. Expert opinions were solicited regarding economic constraints within the production infrastructure of the emerging U.S. aquaculture industry for hybrid striped bass (progeny of crosses between striped bass Morone saxatilis and other Morone species) that are potential impediments to sustained growth of the industry. Respondentsˈ experience levels and response variability were considered in the interpretation of survey responses. Closed high‐density production systems, insurance coverage, and public and private financing were judged by experts as those production factors that are most prohibitively expensive, under current economic conditions, for sustained growth of the hybrid striped bass industry.