Cooperators: Members

Walter R. Keithly, Jr., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Louisiana State University

225-578-6296
walterk@lsu.edu

Walter R. Keithly, Jr. earned a Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida. He currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness and the Coastal Fisheries Institute at Louisiana State University. He serves on numerous state and federal committees including the Standing Scientific and Statistical Committee of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (chair since 1999) and the Socioeconomic Panel of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (chair since 2002). He is the author of approximately one-hundred reports (peer review, technical reports, etc.) and has received grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sea Grant, and various state agencies.

Areas of work: Resource economics, fisheries management, natural resource valuation