Incentives for optimal management of age-structured fish populations

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-134

  Quaas, Martin F ^a   Requate, Till ^a   Ruckes, Kirsten ^a   Skonhoft, Anders ^b   Vestergaard, Niels ^c   Voss, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age structured model; Fishery management; Growth overfishing; Optimal harvesting; Recruitment overfishing

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; AGE STRUCTURED MODEL; BIO-ECONOMIC MODEL; FISH POPULATIONS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL HARVESTING; OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT; RECRUITMENT OVERFISHING;

FISHERIES; HARVESTING;

OPTIMIZATION;

AGE STRUCTURE; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GADOID FISHERY; HARVESTING; INCENTIVE; OVERFISHING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

GADUS CALLARIAS;

EID: 84872824327     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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