Excerpt from The Florida Spiny Lobster Fishery: Landings, Prices and Resource Productivity Florida's spiny lobster industry achieved tremendous growth during the past two decades and is presently the second most important fishery in the state in terms of dockside value of landings. This substantial growth has caused much concern in the industry regarding the possibility of exploitation of the lobster resource. Both state and federal govern ment and university personnel are responding with numerous research projects in the biological, physical and social sciences designed to address the exploitation question. The Food and Resource Economics Department has initiated a lobster management study designed to analyze fishery management alternatives for this industry. This report includes much of the background information currently in existence and is being reported prior to the completion of the study in order to aid other researchers, industry members and governmental agencies in their evaluation and understanding of trends and events in the lobster in dustry. Additional necessary data collected from a sample survey of the industry is also currently being analyzed. This report has four sections. Section one is an analysis of the trends in the quality and value of spiny lobster landings in Florida. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.