Optimal Harvesting of an Age-Structured Schooling Fishery

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-39

  Tahvonen, Olli ^a   Quaas, Martin Friedrich ^b   Schmidt, Jörn Oliver ^b   Voss, Rudi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age structured models; Economic ecological optimization; Fishery management; Multispecies interaction; Optimal harvesting

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGY; FISHERIES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGE STRUCTURED MODEL; ECOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MULTI-SPECIES; OPTIMAL HARVESTING;

HARVESTING;

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOMASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GADOID; HARVESTING; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

GADUS CALLARIAS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS BALTICUS;

EID: 84872821807     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9579-x     Document Type: Article

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