Costs of climate change: Economic value of Yakima River salmon
This work resulted from a continuing multidisciplinary analysis of species preservation and global change. The paper explores the economic cost of a potential regional warming as it affects one Pacific Northwest natural resource, the spring chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshcawytscha). Climate change and planned habitat improvements impact the production and economic value of soling chinook salmon of the Yakima River tributary of the Columbia River in eastern Washington. The paper presents a derivation of the total economic value of a chinook salmon, which includes the summation of the existence, commercial, recreational, and capital values of the fish. When currently available commercial, recreational, existence, and capital values for chinook salmon were applied to estimated population changes, the estimated change in the economic value per fish associated with reduction of one fish run proved significant.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 10135889
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-20998; CONF-9207114-3; ON: DE93008253
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 67. annual Western Economic Association International (WEAI) conference,San Francisco, CA (United States),9-13 Jul 1992; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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