Selected Papers and Presentations, by Topic

• Recent Papers and Presentations
• Salmon Markets
• Alaska Salmon Management
• Aquaculture
• Alaska Halibut and Sablefish IFQ Program
• Other Topics  

Recent Papers and Presentations

• The Great Salmon Run: Competition Between Wild and Farmed Salmon. This is a 340-page report by Gunnar Knapp and University of Rhode Island Professors Cathy Roheim and James L. Anderson. This report was sponsored and published by TRAFFIC North America, a joint program of the World Wildlife Fund and the World Conservation Union. The report was completed in January 2007.
  Title Pages and Table of Contents (12 pages, 146 kilobyte pdf file)
  Executive Summary (31 pages, 1 megabyte pdf file)
  Full report (340 pages, 10 megabyte pdf file)
  Report front and back cover (1 page, 11 x 17 inches, color, 566 kilobyte pdf file)
  The report is also posted as 26 separate pdf files (Cover, Title pages, Executive Summary, 20 chapters, and 3 appendixes) on the TRAFFIC North America website:
  www.traffic.org
• Trends in World Salmon Markets and their Implications for the Alaska Salmon Industry. A 113-slide presentation given November 15, 2006 at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau, Alaska. pdf version (4.1 megabytes)

• Selected Economic Impacts of BSAI Crab Rationalization on Kodiak Fishing Employment and Earnings and Kodiak Businesses: A Preliminary Analysis. Prepared for City of Kodiak. June 2006.
  pdf version (569 kilobytes)

• Selected Economic and Social Impacts of BSAI Crab Rationalization on the Aleutians East Borough Communities of False Pass, King Cove and Akutan: Executive Summary of Preliminary Analysis. Prepared together with Marie Lowe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social and Economic Research. Prepared for Aleutians East Borough, May 2006.
  pdf version (41 kilobytes)

• Oil Spills and Fisheries Markets: Potential Effects and Mitigation Strategies. Presentation to the Aleutian Life Forum on Effects of Oil on Oil Fisheries, Unalaska, Alaska, August 2005.
  pdf version (1 megabyte)

• Implications of Aquaculture for Wild Fisheries:  The Case of Alaska Wild Salmon.  Presentation for the Bevan Sustainable Fisheries Lecture Series, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 10, 2005. 
  pdf version (8.7 megabytes)

• Implications of Aquaculture for Wild Fisheries:  The Case of Alaska Wild Salmon.  Public lecture for a celebration of “The University of Alaska Anchorage:  The Next 50 Years, Anchorage, Alaska, February 4, 2005.
  pdf version (8.3 megabytes)

• Twenty-Five Observations on Alaska Economic Trends and Arctic Economic Development.  Presentation for Arctic Economic Development Summit, Barrow, Alaska, February 2, 2005.
  pdf version (422 kilobytes)

• Selected Economic Effects of the Chignik Salmon Cooperative.  Remarks for the Alaska Board of Fisheries, November 14, 2004. pdf version (69 kilobytes)

• Projections of Future Bristol Bay Salmon Prices.  Prepared for the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, October 2004.  This study describes markets for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon products and how market conditions affect ex-vessel prices, and develops forecasts for a likely range of future ex-vessel prices for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon.
  pdf version of Executive Summary (10 pages, 84 kilobytes) pdf version of full report (171 pages, 1.41 megabytes)

• Five Economic Considerations in Thinking About United States Offshore Aquaculture.  Presentation at Pacific Marine Expo, Seattle, Washington, November 12, 2004.
  pdf version of full presentation (12.8 megabytes)
  pdf version of abridged presentation (2.6 megabytes).  In order to reduce the file size, this version of this presentation has been abridged by removing nine slides with scanned press articles illustrating aquaculture developments for a variety of species from around the world.

 

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Salmon Markets

• Projections of Future Bristol Bay Salmon Prices.  Prepared for the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, October 2004.  This study describes markets for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon products and how market conditions affect ex-vessel prices, and develops forecasts for a likely range of future ex-vessel prices for Bristol Bay sockeye salmon.
  pdf version of Executive Summary (10 pages, 84 kilobytes)
  pdf version of full report (171 pages, 1.41 megabytes)

• Estimates of United States Production and Consumption of Salmon. March 2000.
  Version #1 Html version with links to other pages with graphs illustrating the estimates. This version is recommended for reading on line. 
  Version #2 Html version incorporating graphs illustrating the estimates within a single web page.  This version is recommended for reading as a self-standing document.

• The Salmon Industry: Twenty-Seven Predictions for the Future. June 1998.

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Alaska Salmon Management

• Selected Economic Effects of the Chignik Salmon Cooperative.  Remarks for the Alaska Board of Fisheries, November 14, 2004. pdf version (69 kilobytes)

• Challenges and Strategies for the Alaska Salmon Industry.  This is a powerpoint presentation (118 slides) which I gave to a number of salmon industry groups during the winter and spring of 2002, discussing challenges facing the Alaska salmon industry and strategies for dealing with them.  Revised April 2002. pdf version

• Challenges and Strategies for the Alaska Salmon Industry.  This is a 26-page paper in which I discuss challenges facing the Alaska salmon industry and strategies for dealing with them.  Revised December 20, 2001. pdf version

• Управление Аляскинским рыболовством и трудности в управлении рыболовством.  (Alaska Fisheries Management and Challenges of Fisheries Management).  In Russian. 

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Aquaculture

• Five Economic Considerations in Thinking About United States Offshore Aquaculture.  Presentation at Pacific Marine Expo, Seattle, Washington, November 12, 2004.
  pdf version of full presentation (12.8 megabytes)\
  pdf version of abridged presentation (2.6 megabytes).  In order to reduce the file size, this version of this presentation has been abridged by removing nine slides with scanned press articles illustrating aquaculture developments for a variety of species from around the world.

• Economic Considerations in Thinking About United States Marine Aquaculture.  Presentation for the NOAA Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission (MAFAC), Juneau, Alaska, August 11, 2004. pdf version

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Alaska Halibut and Sablefish IFQ Program

• The First Year of the Alaska IFQ Program: A Survey of Halibut Quota Share Holders.  By Gunnar Knapp and Dan Hull. This report presents the results of a survey of Alaska halibut quota share holders conducted in 1996.
  pdf version of executive summary (16 pages, 429 kilobytes)
  pdf version of full report (135 pages, 4.145 megabytes)

• Attitudes of Alaska Halibut Fishermen Towards IFQ Management.  Presentation at the 2000 Meeting of the
  International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, July 12, 2000. 
  pdf version (65 kilobytes)

• Working Papers Reporting on Surveys of Alaska Halibut Fishermen About Effects of IFQ Management.   These papers report on two telephone surveys of Alaska halibut fishermen conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), about the effects of Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) management of the Alaska halibut fishery. Funding for the surveys was provided by the Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

 Methodology for ISER Surveys of Alaska Halibut Fishermen. PDF. May 1999.

Effects of IFQ Management on Fishing Safety. PDF. May 1999.

Effects of IFQ Management on Resource Conservation. PDF. May 1999.

Unreported Discards of Halibut Under IFQ Management. PDF. May 1999.

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Other Topics

• An Introduction to the Russian Far East..  This is a presentation for the Russia-in-Asia faculty development workshop held at the University of Alaska Anchorage, May 23, 2006. pdf version

• Change, Challenges and Opportunities for Wild Fisheries.  This is a slightly modified version of a 56-slide powerpoint presentation which I gave in Reykjavik, Iceland on September 20, 2002. pdf version

• Implications of Aquaculture for Wild Fisheries: The Case of Alaska Wild Salmon.  This is a 77-slide powerpoint presentation which I gave at a meeting of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) in Wellington, New Zealand, August 22, 2002.  pdf version

• A Village Fish Processing Plant:  Yes or No?  A Planning Handbook.  May 2001.  This handbook describes some of the main questions to think about in planning a fish processing plant for an Alaska village, and in thinking about whether a fish plant is likely to be successful.

• Five Principles for Economic Comparisons of Commercial and Sport Fisheries .  April 2001.  As an Alaska economist interested in fisheries, I have seen a number of different economic comparisons of commercial and sport fisheries. I have frequently found these comparisons misleading. Even when the economic analysis is technically correct, it is all-too-easy to draw misleading conclusions. In this short paper, I suggest five principles for economic comparisons of commercial and sport fisheries. These principles do not relate to the many complicated technical issues in calculating economic impacts and value. Rather, they relate to how these measures of economic impacts and value should be interpreted and used.

• Pictures of Japanese Herring Roe Processing and Products
  This is a Powerpoint presentation with pictures of Japanese herring roe processing and products which I took in Japan in the Fall of 1998.

• “Innovation in Alaska Fisheries Management, ” Guest lecture for Economics 551-741: The Economics of Innovation: New Ideas for the Last Frontier,” February 11, 2004
  Windows Powerpoint file (.ppt)
  Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)

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