Expert Opinions on Critical Production Factors for Sustained Growth of the Hybrid Striped Bass Industry
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
- Vol. 123 (1) , 94-100
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8659(1994)123<0094:eoocpf>2.3.co;2
Abstract
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. Respondents' 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.Keywords
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