Harvesting an age-structured population as biomass: Does it work?

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 525-550

  Tahvonen, Olli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Age structured population models; Fishery economics; Optimal harvesting; Surplus production models

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951223116     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2008.00022.x     Document Type: Article

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