Eliminating excess capacity: Implications for the scottish fishing industry

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 407-424

  Tingley, Diana ^a   Pascoe, Sean ^a  

^a HM Naval Base   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity utilisation; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Economic analysis; Fleet reduction; Scottish fishing fleet

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447563877     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.20.4.42629485     Document Type: Article

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