Pew Trust Environmental Group prepared by John M. Gates
http://paceeenvironmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/investing-in-our-future-economic-case.html
[Summary] This report provides a new analysis of the potential economic benefits of rebuilding depleted fish populations in the Mid-Atlantic. The study estimates direct economic benefits by comparing status quo management scenarios with scenarios where populations would have been rebuilt by 2007.
For both commercial and recreational fishing sectors, rebuilding populations of black sea bass, bluefish, butterfish and summer flounder by 2007 would have generated an additional $570 million per year in perpetuity in direct economic benefits. (PEN-e)
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