The impact of subsidies upon fisheries management and sustainability: The case of the North Atlantic

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 233-250

  Munro, Gordon ^a   Sumaila, Ussif R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buy back; Decommissioning; Level of subsidies; Open access; Private property

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036971504     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2979.2002.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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