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New Perspectives On The Ocean Economy Of The Mid-Atlantic States, Charles Colgan Dec 2022

New Perspectives On The Ocean Economy Of The Mid-Atlantic States, Charles Colgan

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A Guide To Creating Core Ocean Gdp Accounts, Charles S. Colgan Mar 2022

A Guide To Creating Core Ocean Gdp Accounts, Charles S. Colgan

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Start with a simple question. What does the ocean contribute to the national economy? This might seem like a trivial question. After all, the contributions of other major natural resources such as agriculture or forest products are regularly counted as the output of farming, food, and fibre industries along with lumber and other forest products. But in most countries, there is no identifiable “ocean economy”. Industries like marine transportation or fishing are accounted for, but nothing that ties all the varied ocean-related economic activity together. Without a deliberate effort to identify and measure all relevant economic activity related to the …