Commercial fishing in the Brazilian Amazon: Regional differentiation in fleet characteristics and efficiency

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-115

  Almeida, Oriana T ^a   Lorenzen, K ^a   McGrath, D G ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UFPA/NAEA and IPAM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Catch prediction; Co management; Commercial fishery; Production analysis; Translog model

Indexed keywords

COMANAGEMENT; FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; PURSE SEINING;

BRAZIL;

HESPERIIDAE; SCOMBERESOX SAURUS SAURUS;

EID: 0038476976     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2400.2003.00320.x     Document Type: Article

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