The new fisheries economics: Incentives across many margins

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 379-402

  Smith, Martin D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaculture; bioeconomics; bycatch; fisheries management; gear selectivity; growth overfishing; intraseasonal; life history; marine reserve; multispecies; seafood markets; spatial

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873203734     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-110811-114550     Document Type: Article

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