Economics for Fisheries Management

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R. Quentin Grafton
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 161 páginas
Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and low returns. Using recent developments in microeconomic theory and with numerous case-studies and examples, this book shows how to measure efficiency, productivity, profitability and capacity of fishing fleets and how to improve fisheries management. The book will prove invaluable to researchers, students and professionals interested in understanding the problems in fisheries and how they may be overcome.

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Data for Economic Analysis of Commercial Fisheries 25
25
Measurement and Analysis of Efficiency in Fisheries 57
57
Understanding and Measuring Capacity in Fisheries
83
Measuring Productivity and Decomposing Profits in Fisheries
105
Economics for Fisheries Management
127
Glossary
141
Index
157
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R. Quentin Grafton is Professor at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Australia. James Kirkley is Professor of Marine Science in the Department of Fisheries Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, USA. Tom Kompas is Senior Lecturer and ARC Research Associate at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Australia. Dale Squires is an Industry Economist at the National Marine Fisheries Service, USA, and is also Adjunct Professor at University of California, San Diego, USAUSA.

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