[ABNJ Ocean Partnerships] The Value of Billfish Resources to Both Commercial and Recreational Sectors in the Caribbean]
This report develops the background on ecosystem values as they relate to billfish stocks in the Caribbean, defining the terminology and state of the art in valuation science in general and the state of billfish valuation in the Caribbean region in particular. Types of value, including market and non-market, are defined and the basic estimations techniques used to value billfish across commercial and recreational sectors are detailed and described as they related to this project (Published in 2016).