Patterns of fisheries institutional failure and success: Experience from the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence snow crab fishery, in Nova Scotia, Canada

Marine Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 320-326

  Loucks, Laura ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co management; Credible commitment; Economic incentives; Fisheries management institutions; Institutional failure

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMANAGEMENT; CRAB FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OVERFISHING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

CHIONOECETES OPILIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 33846439329     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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