Stochastic economic variables and their effect on net returns to channel catfish production

Aquaculture Economics and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 15-36

  Kazmierczak, Richard F ^a   Soto, Patricia ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catfish production; Economics; Price risk; Stochastic dominance; Yield risk

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; FISHERY ECONOMICS; PRICE DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034915815     PISSN: 13657305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13657300109380275     Document Type: Article

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