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| Dedah, Cheikhna O.; Kazmierczak, Richard F., Jr.; Keithly, Walter R., Jr.. |
| In response to nutria-linked degradation of much of its coastal wetlands, Louisiana established the Coastwide Nutria Control Program (CNCP) in January 2002. CNCP instituted, among other things, an ‘‘economic incentive payment’’ of $4.00 per delivered nutria tail from registered participants in the program. To examine whether this bounty has had an impact on nutria harvest and whether alternative bounty levels can, in general, generate additional harvesting activities, we developed a bioeconomic supply model that relates Louisiana’s annual nutria harvests to a suite of economic and environmental factors. Results suggested that the annual nutria harvest is responsive to both the price received per animal and costs. Results also suggested that the nutria... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Bounties; Long-run supply; Nutria; Open access; Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Political Economy; Public Economics; Q210. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57158 |
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