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Wreckfish

Educational resources on Wreckfish

Wreckfish or Polyprion americanus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Data Deficient . IUCN Profile of the Wreckfish

Academic web links for the Wreckfish.


Fisheries: South Atlantic
Also, wreckfish are generally marketed as a grouper substitute, so that even if one party did obtain all of the allowable permits, they still would not be able to obtain
www.colby.edu/personal/t/thtieten/fish-sa.html

Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing ...
Effort from the wreckfish fishery appears to have transferred into other fisheries in the South Atlantic region, particularly into the snapper-grouper and shrimp fisheries
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6335&page=69

Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing ...
In the wreckfish IFQ program, the TAC has been so substantially underfished that some other factor must be operating. For example, wreckfish fishermen may be maximizing their
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6335&page=59

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDIES
ITQs in the Wreckfish Fishery (South Atlantic) State Failure to Regulate Shark Fishing (United States) Funding Mechanisms Micro Lending and Economic and Environmental Sustainability
www.colby.edu/personal/t/thtieten/cases.html

AgEcon Search: Item 48882
This paper describes the wreckfish ITQ program in detail and discusses difficulties encountered in its development. Beyond providing information on the practical constraints of
ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/48882

Dr. Carlin's Research Interests
Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) in the North Atlantic: Fisheries, biology, and management of a widely distributed and long-lived fish. American Fisheries Society Symposium 23: 27
homepages.gac.edu/~jcarlin/research.html

Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing ...
The counterargument is that the wreckfish fishery is one for which the population parameters are largely unknown, wreckfish are a long-lived species subject to potential
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6335&page=70

Welcome to Professor Carlin's homepage!
Joel then became a marine biologist for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources for three years, where he worked on stock identification in the newly developed wreckfish
homepages.gac.edu/~jcarlin

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(WHOI) : Lost City Pictures
A friendly wreckfish was a return visitor while the ROV sampled at IMAX vent.
www.whoi.edu/sbl/image.do?id=61091&litesiteid=23873&articleId=36567

Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing ...
Others have been initiated by scientists and managers but developed substantially by fishermen (e.g., wreckfish). Most have used some form of collaborative process, usually
www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6335&page=97







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