Research


What We Do

Our active research areas include:

  • Marine resource economics
  • Policy evaluation
  • Econometric analysis
  • Bioeconomic modeling
  • Fisheries management at international, national, regional, and state levels
  • Climate change
  • Coastal community resilience
  • Seafood markets and prices

We’ve also advised student projects on:

  • Aquaculture
  • Small-scale fisheries
  • Fishery monitoring/enforcement
  • Resource valuation
  • …and more

Support:

We are grateful to DE Sea Grant, NOAA Fisheries, Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and others for financial support of our research! Outside funding helps cover the costs of tuition, research assistantships, computing/software resources, conference travel, publication fees, and other student training and research expenses.

To support students studying fisheries economics at UD:

  1. Please visit ud.alumniq.com/giving/to/makeagift
  2. Click “I’d like to search for a different option”
  3. Search for keywords “fisheries” and “economics”
  4. Select the Lee G. Anderson Fisheries Economics and Management Fellowship

Thank you!