Salmon recovery in the Columbia River basin: Analysis of measures affecting agriculture

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-40

  Aillery, Marcel ^a   Moore, Michael R ^b   Weinberg, Marca ^c   Schaible, Glenn ^a   Gollehon, Noel ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barge transportation cost; Columbia Snake River; Electricity rate; Endangered Species Act; Field crop production; Flow augmentation; Irrigation diversions; Recovery measures; Salmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001925792     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.14.1.42629250     Document Type: Article

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