"The Big Grab": Non-compliance with regulations, skewed fishing effort allocation and implications for a spiny lobster fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-33

  Tewfik, Alexander ^a   Béné, Christophe ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Catch; Effort; Management; Panulirus argus; Spatial temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

FISHERY REGULATION; FISHING EFFORT; LOBSTER FISHERY; SKEWNESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS;

LOBSTER; PANULIRUS; PANULIRUS ARGUS; PONTOPHILUS SPINOSUS;

EID: 3342947799     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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