The Tuna 'Commodity Frontier': Business Strategies and Environment in the Industrial Tuna Fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 252-278

  Campling, Liam ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canned tuna; Commodity chain; Commodity frontier; European Union (EU); Purse seine fisheries; Western Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS SERVICE; CAPITAL; COMMODITY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHING INDUSTRY; FOOD PRODUCTION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TUNA FISHERY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BAY OF BISCAY; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST);

SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 84857959193     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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