Fishermen resistance to exit fisheries

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 199-213

  Ikiara, Moses Muriira ^a   Odink, Joop G ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exit entry; Fisheries; Imperfect capital malleability; Kenyan fisheries of Lake Victoria; Opportunity cost of exiting; Resistance to exit; Willingness to Accept (WTA) compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002680747     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.14.3.42629265     Document Type: Article

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