Clients/Projects

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Typical Clients/Projects

  • Private Sector
  • Public Sector
  • Non-Profit Sector

Private Sector

Vineyard Wind, LLC - Vineyard Wind 1 Offshore Wind Energy Project in offshore lease area OCS-A 0501. Prepared multiple reports assessing the economic exposure of commercial fisheries to the first commercial-scale offshore wind energy facility in the United States. These reports helped Vineyard Wind LLC successfully obtain state and federal permits and negotiate acceptable fishermen mitigation/compensation programs related to Rhode Island and Massachusetts fisheries.

Epsilon Associates, Inc. – Wind Energy Development in Vineyard Northeast - Offshore OCS Lease Area 0522. Preparing reports assessing economic exposure of commercial fisheries to proposed offshore wind energy facility to support federal and state permitting and the development of commercial fishermen compensation and mitigation programs.

Avangrid/Renewables – New England Wind - Offshore Wind Energy Development in OCS Lease Area 0534. Preparing reports assessing economic exposure of commercial fisheries to proposed offshore wind energy facility to support federal and state permitting and the development of commercial fishermen compensation and mitigation programs.

California commercial fishermen class action lawsuit related to the “Plains All American Pipeline oil spill” near Refugio State Beach, Santa Barbara, CA; Economic expert supporting fishermen’s economic damage claims.

Southwest Florida Joint Wetlands Venture. Prepared a report submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers that challenged certain historical and ongoing applications of the “King equation” to assign credits to Florida-based wetland mitigation banks and form the basis for the Army Corps of Engineers, allowing them to be sold as legitimate offsets to wetland impacts.

American Commodities, Incorporated. Expert consultant to the plaintiff in litigation involving “breach of contract” and “fraud” associated with the overpricing and mislabeling of China-produced frozen shrimp products that were imported to the U.S.A. as products of Malaysia in order to avoid U.S. anti-dumping duties on Chinese shrimp.

Glosten Engineering. Served as the lead economist on a study funded by the Delta Stewardship Council to determine the technical, logistical, and economic feasibility of shore-based ballast water treatment at California seaports.

Hausfeld Law Offices. Expert consultant to plaintiffs (USA Direct buyers) in a price-fixing lawsuit involving USA sales of canned tuna and other processed seafood products by three large foreign-based seafood companies.

EA Engineering/NOAA Managed preparation of economic sections of Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for gulf coast restoration projects related to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

EA Engineering, Inc./NOAA. Managed economic analysis and drafting of a report to form the basis of NMFS Section 4(b)(2) Report on impacts of proposed Endangered Species Act critical habitat designation for the South Atlantic and Carolina distinct population segments of Atlantic Sturgeon.

Integrated Statistics, Inc./NOAA Managed economic analysis and drafting of a report to form the basis of NMFS Section 4(b)(2) Report on impacts of proposed Endangered Species Act critical habitat designation for three northern distinct population segments of Atlantic Sturgeon.

Avatar Environmental. EPA-funded project to develop an integrated ecological risk assessment and ecosystem valuation database to allow users to find studies that can be combined using common endpoints.

Weston Solutions, Inc. Environmental/economic analysis of dredged material placement options, including NER (National Ecosystem Restoration) analysis to prioritize options and establish Federal cost sharing.

Oil Spill Class Action. Lead economic expert for property owners, businesses, and commercial fishermen in a lawsuit for natural resource damages resulting from the April, 1999 Pepco Chalk Point Power Station Oil Spill in the Patuxent River, Maryland.

Scientific Certification Systems, Oakland, California. Development of guidelines and protocols for answering production and chain of custody questions to support global seafood certification and labeling programs of the newly formed Marine Stewardship Council.

Fuji Bank, Tokyo. Analysis of competitive forces in global fisheries and fish markets and assessment of long-term investment risks in Asian and Latin American seafood industries.

Bumblebee Seafoods, Thailand. Analysis of competitive conditions in global tuna markets and evaluation of alternative strategies for expansion and diversification of U.S. and Thai operations.

Asian Development Bank, Manila. Prepared a report on tuna export opportunities for Pacific Island nations. Included price forecasts by product, type, and fish size and an assessment of the most promising joint-venture strategies in the Pacific basin.

H.J. Heinz and Co., (Star-Kist, International), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Analysis of international and domestic markets for raw/frozen and canned tuna and the impact of market changes on 1) the financial performance of various national fishing fleets and seafood processing industries and 2) long-term investment and production strategies.

Lloyd’s of London, Ltd. Retained four years (1980-1984) as lead consultant and expert witness evaluating risks, estimating losses, developing settlement offers, and supporting legal proceedings related to claims of lost earnings from high-seas fisheries and related losses in fish processing sectors.

Castle and Cooke, Inc., San Francisco, California. Analysis of recent changes in global fisheries and markets and their short-term and long-term impacts on various segments of Asian, Latin, and Pacific seafood industries.

Worldcom Corp. Used regional economic “input-output” models to estimate state-level impacts on business sales, household income, jobs, taxes, and value added if Worldcom/MIC was not allowed to restructure and come out of bankruptcy.

Zapata-Haine Corporation, Mexico City. Evaluation of investments in high seas fisheries and global fish canning facilities and assessment of trends in international seafood markets.

Asian Development Bank/United Nations. Analysis of world shrimp demand and forecast of international shrimp markets through 1985. The report supported the successful expansion of the global shrimp aquaculture industry during the 1980s.

Booz–Allen, Hamilton, Inc., Los Angeles. Optimization of global fish harvesting, processing, and distribution operations by a Fortune 100 firm; integrated management of seafood, fishmeal, and fish oil production systems.

Exxon Company, USA, California. Forecast impacts of offshore oil development on seven central California commercial fisheries. Provided basis for cash payments to fishermen for temporary fishing area preclusions.

Banpesca (National Fisheries Development Bank of Mexico). Development of a National Tuna Development Plan and financial/economic models to evaluate investment, production, and financing decisions and joint venture and marketing proposals related to global tuna fisheries.

Van Camp Seafood, P.T. Mantrust, Indonesia. Analysis of global tuna fleet allocation and tuna procurement strategies using linear programming and other computerized decision models.

Exxon Company, USA, California. Post-project analysis of economic losses to commercial fishing operations from a three-year offshore oil development project in central California. Provided basis for final settlements with seven commercial fishing fleets for temporary fishing area preclusions.

Florida Wetlandsbank, Inc. Evaluation of Florida Mitigation Banking Review Team debit/credit guidelines and related methodologies, and an evaluation of their potential financial impacts on wetland mitigation ventures in Florida.

Fishermen's Cooperative Association of San Pedro. A study of alternative products and international markets for California market squid.

Southern California Investment Bank. Forecasts of risk and economic performance for selected U.S. commercial aquaculture industries.

Bechtel Group, Inc. San Francisco. Economic/financial analysis of fishery-oil conflicts associated with potential offshore/onshore facilities in Central California.

Cities Service Oil and Gas Corp. San Francisco. Economic/financial analysis of fishery-oil conflicts associated with potential offshore/onshore facilities in Central California.

Public Sector

Maryland Port Administration, Economic assessment of investment and policy decisions at U.S. seaports to reduce aquatic invasive species(AIS) threats by encouraging private-sector port-based investments hull cleaning services to reduce biofouling using emerging In-water Clean and Capture (IWCC) and In-water Hull grooming technologies.

Maryland Port Administration. Integrated economic and environmental analysis of environmentally beneficial dredge material placement options, including applications to protect and restore wetlands and create island habitats in the Chesapeake Bay.

Maryland Port Administration. Economic analysis of current U.S. and pending International Maritime Organization (IMO) ballast water regulations and emerging global markets for ballast water treatment technologies and other methods to manage harmful marine invasive species.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, (USDA) Lead Economist on 5 year/$5 million study of innovative applications of wireless moisture sensor networks to guide irrigation and nutrient management decisions in the production of specialty crops and in other intensive agricultural practices.

Maryland Department of the Environment. Development of a full cost accounting framework for urban stormwater best management practices including spreadsheets to determine planning level unit cost estimates for implementing stormwater BMPs in MD counties.

Maryland Port Administration. Integrated economic and environmental analysis of environmentally beneficial dredge material placement options, including applications to protect and restore wetlands and create island habitats in the Chesapeake Bay.

U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Assess economic feasibility of converting MARAD ships and ships involved in maritime trade to use alternative fuels and establishing supply chains for providing alternative fuels to selected U.S. seaports.

Maryland Port Administration. Economics of ballast water treatment technologies for marine invasive species.

Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (MARCOOS). Assessing the value of physical ocean observations to users along several pathways involving fishing, fishery management, search and rescue, shipping, offshore energy, weather predictions, etc.

U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA. Managing economic component of the Chesapeake Inundation Prediction System (CIPS), a new NOAA storm-generated flooding prediction system for the Chesapeake Bay.

Maryland Environmental Services. Environmental economic analysis of dredged material placement options and GIS-based assessments of aesthetic and other localized impacts of placement alternatives.

NOAA, Office of Habitat Protection. Development of formulae and related guidebook and software for developing science-based and legally defensible wetland mitigation (compensation) ratios; prepare workshops for NOAA field staff on east coast (Silver Spring, MD) and west coast (Seattle, WA).

NOAA, Office of Habitat Protection. Integrated environmental/economic analysis of derelict fishing gear (ghost traps) in the Chesapeake Bay and cost/risk/benefit analysis of alternative gear identification and retrieval systems.

USDA, Economic Research Service. Develop cost/risk profiles associated with invasive weeds using Cheatgrass in the Columbia River Basin as a case study. Use cost, risk, benefit data to test potential of innovative "risk-optimizer" software to prioritize responses on agricultural and natural lands.

EPA, Regional ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA). Use of regional environmental risk/vulnerability indices and other landscape and land use data to guide cross-media and out-of-kind environmental trades, with illustrations for North Carolina and South Carolina.

EPA, Regional ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA). Use of landscape indicators and other measures of geographic and socio-economic heterogeneity to develop rules to guide cross-media/inter-state environmental trading involving air and water credits in 15 counties in NC and SC in the vicinity of Charlotte, NC.

NOAA, Office of Habitat Protection. Guidelines for using economic analysis to prioritize and manage habitat protection and restoration strategies.

NOAA, Office of the Administrator. Prepare report on supply and demand conditions and other economic aspects of proposed water quality credit trading programs with special focus on the Chesapeake Bay region.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, APHIS. Development of Cost/Risk and Cost/Benefit Protocols to prioritize and manage spending to control harmful invasive plants on uncultivated land (natural habitats).

U.S. EPA, Office of Atmospheric Programs, (through Stratus Consulting, Inc.). Develop a standard method to “score” carbon sequestration credits and illustrate it using a sample of early U.S.-based carbon sequestration trades.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air. Economic assessment of voluntary carbon sequestration trading in the United States – comparing cost, performance, and credits under alternative “scoring” systems.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station. The development of wetland indicators to guide national/regional wetland mitigation programs and to debit /credit wetland mitigation banking trades.

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Economic Potential of Carbon sequestration in national and international carbon trading markets: practical methods of verifying and debiting and crediting trades that involve changes in land use and farm and forest management practices.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Develop and test a general analytical framework for assessing the economic effects of agricultural nutrient policies on fisheries and related coastal industries.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Economic Research Service. An integrated cost-risk- benefit framework for prioritizing and developing response protocols related to noxious weed threats.

U.S. Department of Agriculture/NRCS. Development of an ecosystem benefit website for field office staff; including methods and examples of related to absolute (dollar-abased) and relative (non-dollar) ecosystem value estimates to guide environmental investments and to assess and compare mitigation trades.

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Development of ecosystem valuation methods to facilitate the settlement of natural resource damage claims; expert witness on specific cases involving coastal oil spills.

U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA. Methods of comparing ecosystem functions, services and values and performing habitat equivalency analysis under Jan. 5, 1996 NRDA - Final Rule (15 CFR Part 990).

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Research Institute. Wetland location and watershed values: economic and environmental equity issues associated with off-site wetland mitigation banking.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Framework for assessing the benefits and costs of vegetative riparian buffers: with case studies for three Chesapeake Bay area sub-watersheds.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Relocating wetlands–the hidden costs of wetland mitigation: including case studies for the Chesapeake Bay and San Francisco Bay watersheds.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. A framework for evaluating the costs and benefits of managing noxious weeds, prioritizing problem areas, and selecting among weed management alternatives.

Government of Thailand. Economic assessment of proposed changes in U.S. tariffs and quotas related to imported processed seafood products.

Government of Papua New Guinea. Evaluation of export markets and joint venture pricing policies for shrimp, lobster and tuna.

Federated States of Micronesia. Financial feasibility and economic impact of proposed port and fishery development projects.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NMFS, Honolulu. Development of Linear Economic Models to analyze the potential economic impacts of statewide Limited Entry programs applied in a multifishery context (groundfish, lobster, shrimp, tuna).

U.S. Dept. of Interior, Office of Territorial Affairs, Washington, D.C. Evaluation of joint venture and marketing arrangements involving U. S. Trust Territories and multinational corporations.

U.S. Farm Credit Bank, Pacific Region, Sacramento, California. Phase I: Financial/economic analysis of fish processing and fishery-related joint venture opportunities in Asia, Europe and Latin America. Initial negotiation with potential joint venture partners for production. Phase II: Evaluation of raw/frozen and canned tuna markets in U.S., Japan and Europe; evaluation of trading opportunities and initial discussions with marketing joint venture partners.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NMFS, Honolulu. Prepared report describing economics of Hawaii skipjack tuna industry and identified fishery development strategies and global market opportunities.

Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, Washington, D.C. Analysis of market and non-market barriers to entering the U.S. food processing industry.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NMFS, Seattle. Detailed financial analysis of U.S. high seas fishing operations including bio-economic analysis based on different resource/fishing conditions and delivery/market systems at locations around the world.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NMFS, La Jolla, California. Survey and analysis of financial performance for west coast salmon/albacore trollers.

Federated States of Micronesia. Evaluation of U.S. and Japanese investment proposals for new port facilities and investments in national fishing industries.

United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. Preparation of global fisheries chapter for "U.N. Report on State of Food and Agriculture, 1980-1985."

United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. Evaluation of port development and seafood industry development alternatives in the southwest Pacific.

United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy. Evaluation of proposed food processing and marketing investments in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

United Nations, Technical Assistance Program, Rome, Italy. Assessment of financial feasibility and economic impacts of alternative industrial complexes proposed for western Pacific island nations by U.S. and Japan-based multinational corporations.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Resources Institute. Development of decision tree framework for identifying and comparing environmental restoration alternatives.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, NMFS. Analysis of economic data for west coast fishing industries.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, NMFS. A cost and earnings study of selected fish harvesting and processing industries.

Government of Solomon Islands. Evaluation of infrastructure requirements and logistical systems to support development of high seas and coastal fishing operations and seafood processing industries.

Government of Kiribati, (Gilbert Islands). Evaluation of joint-venture, fleet acquisition and fish marketing opportunities for newly formed national fisheries corporation.

State of Washington. Economic Impacts of Alternative Fishery Management Policies Related to Salmon and Sturgeon Fisheries. Conducted analysis, prepared report, and testified at Congressional and Senate hearings.

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NMFS, Terminal Island, California. Survey and analysis of west coast shrimp and groundfish trawlers and development of economic database for vessel budget simulators.

U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D.C. Study of economic impacts of proposed abandonment of Eel River Line by Northwest Pacific Railroad and assessment of transportation alternatives .

U.S. Department of Transportation, FHWA, Environment Division, Washington, D.C. Evaluate the cost and performance of wetland mitigation and mitigation banking alternatives related to highway projects.

U.S. Department of Energy; Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. Evaluate the costs and cost-effectiveness of wetland creation, restoration, and enhancement projects associated with mitigation for wetland impacts related to offshore oil development.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C. Integrated ecological- economic analysis of stream restoration. Evaluation of site selection criteria and the cost-effectiveness of engineered and bio-engineered alternatives.

Agency for International Development. Evaluate potential of environmental economic tools for applications involving development-environment problems in sub-Saharan Africa.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Resources Institute. Economics of Wetland Mitigation Banks. Evaluation of economic factors affecting supply and demand for wetland mitigation credits using four case studies.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX (San Francisco). Regional economic profile of wetland creation and restoration activities.

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IV (Atlanta). Economics of wetland restoration and development of methodologies for estimating appropriate mitigation "compensation ratios" for wetland regulations.

U.S. Bureau of Mines. Development and testing of a training program on the economics of ecological restoration.

U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service. Estimation and valuation of potential wetland impacts from 5-year OCS oil and gas leasing program (1992-1996) in 26 OCS lease areas.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Development of an environmental benefits database and an analytical framework for estimating environmental protection costs.

U.S. Department of Justice, Environment Division, Washington, D.C. Develop procedures for tracing and measuring ecological-economic linkages and estimating ecosystem values to support natural resource damage claims; provide support for related litigation.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response. Prepared economic analysis for benefits chapter of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIM) of proposed revision to regulations governing EPA's Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures program for oil. Project included development of market and non-market benefits associated with fishing, hunting, boating, beach-use, and tourism.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Radiation Programs, Radon Division. Economic analysis of user fees for training and testing of radon professionals. Project required cost and market analysis for regional programs to certify contractor proficiency in the design and use of radon testing equipment.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation. Assessment of how offshore oil development affects coastal tourism. Project involved a comprehensive review of literature and comments received at public hearings and the development of a work plan for quantifying adverse impacts on visitations and use of coastal recreation facilities.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste. Development of methods to evaluate impacts of potentially catastrophic releases of hazardous waste on wetland functions and values in order to develop location standards.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Development of cost/performance guidelines for evaluating wetland creation and restoration projects.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Assessment of methods to value economic losses associated with the aesthetic impacts of plastic debris wash-ups on U.S. beaches.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation. Economic analysis federal indoor radon measurement training and proficiency testing program.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy Analysis. Assessment of the economic impacts of medical waste tracking systems in ten Eastern States.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste. Development of rapid-response economic impact and screening tools to assess the significance and incidence of industry-specific regulatory compliance costs.

State of California, Commercial Salmon Limited Entry Review Board, Sacramento. Analysis of interim salmon management regulations and evaluation of alternatives for permanent California salmon management legislation.

Non-Profit Sector

Great Lakes Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Preliminary Economic Analysis of shore-based and barge-based ballast water treatment, pre-treatment and port-based exchange at USA Great Lakes ports to reduce the secondary spread of harmful aquatic invasive species by “lakers” (shipping vessels confined to the Great Lakers.)

Maritime Environmental Resource Center (University of Maryland); Economic analysis of hull husbandry and in-water clean and capture technologies to reduce marine invasive species problems caused by hull biofouling; and assessment of national and international regulations aimed at promoting these technologies and requiring and/or rewarding their use by ship owners/operators.

New England Aquarium, Economic analysis of using ropeless fishing technologies in New England trap fisheries to reduce fishing gear entanglement mortality of highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whale

Fishermen Defense Fund (USA), prepared a paper assessing local and national economic impacts of Amendment 28 to the Gulf of Mexico Reef fish management plan, which would reallocate less annual quota to commercial fishers and more to recreational fishers.

Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro–Ecology, Inc. Prepare and present an economic analysis of county Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) at 5 regional workshops in Maryland.

Maryland Environmental Services. Environmental economic analysis of dredged material placement options and GIS-based assessments of aesthetic and other localized impacts of placement alternatives.

UMCES/Campbell Foundation. Development of an optimization model for prioritizing oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay and examining the opportunity costs of high-risk oyster restoration investments.

Canaan Valley Institute. Assessment of environmental restoration alternatives in the mid-Atlantic Highlands region and development of criteria for prioritizing sites and identifying opportunities to develop export-oriented regional industries to provide ecosystem restoration materials, equipment, and skills.

Pennsylvania Environmental Council. Consultant to the PEC and local partnership organizations on projects to develop a registry, scoring criteria, and trading protocols for a prototype water quality credit trading system for the Conestoga River watershed to be used, eventually, in the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

Florida Southwest Water Management District. Evaluation of proposed rules for sector-based water use restrictions during moderate, extreme, and severe droughts.

Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) and International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC). Review of international experiences with the use of economic incentives for phasing lead out of gasoline and recommendations for developing the least-cost strategy for effectively phasing lead out of gasoline in South Africa.

National Science Foundation. Develop indicators and decision-support flowcharts and prototype software to help focus wetland conservation/restoration initiatives. (Through the University of Rhode Island).

Canaan Valley Institute. County-level assessment of ecosystem restoration opportunities and related business opportunities and economic impacts.

Center for International Environmental Law. Application of geographic information system to prioritize and support enforcement of environmental laws.

Resources for the Future. Legally defensible non-monetary indicators of ecosystem services and values based on site/landscape characteristics.

Winrock International, Inc. Development of carbon sequestration supply function for U.S. forest and agricultural lands to support future greenhouse gas trading.

Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. Assessing boundary and scale issues in the development of community, regional, and national environmental and economic indicators.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. Evaluate current applications of economic incentives for environmental protection in developed nations and assess potential in less developed nations.

Center for International Environmental Law. Application of geographic information system to prioritize and support enforcement of environmental laws.

Environmental Law Institute. Economics of controlling agriculture-based nonpoint source pollution and estimates of compliance costs for various regulatory alternatives.

World Wildlife Fund/Marine Stewardship Council. Guidelines for using non-government initiatives and industry and market-based incentives to encourage sustainable world fisheries.

East-West Center, Pacific Islands Development Program, Honolulu. Prepared publication describing international trade in tropical Pacific fishery products, trade opportunities for central/western Pacific Island nations, and the role of multinationals in markets for Pacific seafood.

Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii. A benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness study of eleven fisheries and aquaculture research and development projects including: Micronesia - Port Development in Truk and Ponape; Guam - Transshipping Facilities; Saipan - High-seas Fisheries; Palau - Cold Storage/Transshipping Facilities; Samoa - Near-shore Fisheries; Tinian - Transshipping Facilities.

South Pacific Forum, Solomon Islands. Feasibility studies for tuna fishery support facilities, and tuna fleet development. And local cold storage and transshipping operations.

World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C. Development and testing of criteria for certifying that seafood products were harvested in fisheries that are sustainable and well managed.

Joint Fishing-Oil Industry Committee, Santa Barbara, California. Study of fishing industry-oil industry interactions in central California area and economic impact of OCS development on the financial performance of commercial fishing operations in Santa Barbara Channel and Santa Maria Basin.

South Pacific Forum, Solomon Islands. Development of computerized databases to monitor foreign fishing in 200-mile fishing zones of seventeen-member nations, and bioeconomic vessel budget simulators to estimate appropriate access fees for various types of fishing vessels.

West Coast Fisheries Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon. Economic potential of alternative product forms and markets for U.S.-caught Pacific and jack mackerel.

National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Pacific Region. Conducted study of alternative ocean management policies for the state of California with consideration of recreational and non-consumptive uses of the marine environment as well as commercial ocean uses.