1st Edition

Freshwater Recreational Fishing The National Benefits of Water Pollution Control

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, signed into law in 1972, dramatically redirected the nation’s water pollution control efforts and set out ambitious national goals, expressed both in terms of discharge controls and of resulting water quality. Originally published in 1982, this title examines the benefits that a reduction in the discharge of water pollutants has for recreational fisherman... Read more

List of tables;   List of Figures;   Acknowledgements;   1. The Problem and the Approach   2. Measuring and predicting Water Quality in Recreation-Related Terms   3. The Probability of Participation in Recreational Fishing   4. Participation Choices and Angling Intensity   5. Valuing a Fishing Day   6. Results and Conclusions;   Appendix A: Valuation in the Context of the Household Production Function Model;   Appendix B: Designing "Almost-Proportional" Samples for Logit Estimation;   Appendix C: Using Case Weights in SAS Regressions;   Appendix D: Methods for Detecting and Correcting for Heteroskedasticity

Biography

Vaughan, William J.; Russell, Clifford S.