What relative seafood prices can tell us about the status of stocks

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-226

  Pinnegar, John K ^a   Hutton, Trevor P ^a   Placenti, Vincenzo ^b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Istituto di Ricerche Economiche Per la Pesca e l'Acquacoltura (IREPA)   (Italy)

^c ARGO SRL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consumer demand; Index; Market price; Supply; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; GADOID FISHERY; INDEX METHOD; PRICE DETERMINATION; SEAFOOD; STOCK IDENTIFICATION;

PISCES; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 33747275781     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2006.00219.x     Document Type: Review

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