Email jkirkley@vims.edu Office DCOP 108 Phone (804) 684-7160

James E. Kirkley Professor of Marine Science Chair, Department of Coastal and Ocean Policy B.S., University of Maryland M.S., University of Maryland Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Interests Current Projects Selected Publications Current Students Past Students Courses Taught / Teaching Faculty/Student Awards Professional Memberships Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Primary research interest: Marine Resource Management, Economic Development, Utilization of Coastal and Marine Resources, and Economics Impact Analysis

Fisheries Management, Stock Assessment, Oil Spill Impact Assessment, Benefit-Cost Assessment, Risk Analysis, EconomicImpact Analysis, International Trade and Foreign Economic Development, Market Analysis, Dumping and Anti-trust Policies,Marine Debris, Economics of Water-based Recreation, Bio-technology, Aquaculture, Gear/Conservation Engineering, Reproductive Biology, International Boundary Disputes, Privatization of Common Property Resources, Economics of ArtificialReefs, Railroad Freight Rates, Economics of Selecting Airline Routes, Local and National Productivity, Industrial Organization, Assessing and Reducing Capacity in Fisheries, Coastal Development, Community-based Development and Fisheries Management, and Determination of Optimum Product Characteristics, Capacity Reduction Programs for Commercial Fisheries, and Mitigating Undesirable Outputs in Commercial Fisheries. [top]

Current Projects

• Management and Regulation of the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab: A Bi-state Effort
• New Management Strategies for Managing the Fisheries of the Chesapeake bay
• Assessing and Reducing Capacity in Global Fisheries Social
• Economic Aspects of Using an Ecosystem-based Strategy to Manage the Chesapeake Bay
• Assessing Capacity and the Cost of Reducing Capacity un U.S. Commercial Fisheries
• Economic Consequences of Alternatively Regulatory Strategies for Managing the U.S. Northwest Atlantic Tilefish Fishery
• Aggregating Firm-Level Estimates of Efficiency and Capacity to the Industry: Distance Functions and Nonparametric Analysis Multi-Output Capacity Measures and Their Relevance for Productivity
• Community and Economic Impacts of Highly Migratory Species Fisheries Management
• Economic Impacts of Mid-Atlantic Coastal County and Regional Fisheries
• Determination of the Cost of Reducing Over-Capacity in Five Federally Managed Fisheries
• Assessing Excess Capacity in the Gulf Reef and South Atlantic Fisheries
• Determining Excess Capacity in the World's Tuna Fleets
• Economic Impacts and Values of Restoring Essential Fish Habitat
• Assessing the Economic Impacts of Economic Problems Confronting the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Shrimp Fisheries

• Fox, K. J., R. Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley, and D. Squires. (2003). Natural capital, regulatory change and firm performance: theory and application of index number decompositions. (In Press, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management).
• Kirkley, J. E., D. Squires, J. F. Alam, and I. H. Omar. (2003). Capacity and asymmetric information in developing country fisheries: the Malaysian purse seine fishery. (In Press, American Journal of Agricultural Economics).
• Squires, D., I. H. Omar, Y. Jeon, J. Kirkley, K. Kuperan, and I. Susilowati. (2003). Excess capacity and sustainable development in Java Sea fisheries. Economics and Development Economic 8: 105-127.
• Vestergaard, N., J. E. Kirkley, and D. Squires. (2003). Measuring capacity and capacity utilization in fisheries: The case of the Danish gill-net fleet. Fisheries Research 60: 357-368.
• Walden, J., J. E. Kirkley, and A. Kitts. (2003). A limited economic assessment of the Northeast Groundfish Fishery Buyout Program (In Press, Land Economics).
• DuPont, D., Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley, and D. Squires. (2002). Multi-product regulation and the privatization of a fishery. Journal of Energy and Resource Economics.
• Kirkley, J. E., C. Morrison-Paul, and D. E. Squires. (2002). Capacity and capacity utilization in common-pool resource industries. Environmental and Resource Economics 22(1-2): 71-97.
• Kuperan, K., I. H. Omar, Y. Jeon, J. E. Kirkley, D. Squires, and I. Susilowati. (2002). Fishing skill in developing country fisheries: The Kedah, Malaysia Trawl Fishery. Marine Resource Economics (published in 2002, with 2001 publication date).

• Ryan, Winifred, Ph.D. Social Impact Assessment in Fisheries and Closed Area Management.
• Scott, Tara, M.S. Assessing the Economic Ramifications of Reducing the Capture of Sea Turtles in the Northwest Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fishery.

• Zablekis, Sarunas, M.S., 2001
• Kaltayev, Arman, M.S., 2000

• MS 529 Economic Principles of Fisheries Management
• MS 549 Quantitative Methods for Marine Resource Policy
• MS 542 Principles of Environmental and Natural Resource Management

• American Economic Association
• American Agricultural Economics Association
• Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
• Canadian Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Society
• Econometric Society
• International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade
• North American Association for Fisheries Economists
• Northeastern Agrilcutral and Resource Economics Association
• Southern Agricultural Economics Association
• Western Agricultural Economics Association