Territoriality as a Driver of Fishers' Spatial Behavior in the Northumberland Lobster Fishery

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 491-505

  Turner, Rachel A ^a,b   Gray, Tim ^c   Polunin, Nicholas V C ^b   Stead, Selina M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community norms; economic defendability; fisheries management; fishers' behavior; lobster; territoriality

Indexed keywords

FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; LOBSTER FISHERY; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SPATIAL PLANNING; TERRITORIALITY;

ENGLAND; NORTHUMBERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84875922228     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2012.709313     Document Type: Article

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