A net loss: Policy instruments for commercial cod fishing in Sweden

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Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 84-90

  Sterner, Thomas ^a   Svedäng, Henrik ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; OVERFISHING; QUOTA SYSTEM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

GADUS MORHUA; GOES;

EID: 17144386999     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.2.84     Document Type: Article

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24. The authors would like to thank Gardner Brown and the participants of several SUCOZOMA workshops and the SUCOZOMA cod group as well as two referees for useful comments and MISTRA for financial support. We also thank Björn Ganning and Ander Carlberg for valuable input into the paper.