Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database Revisited: A New Approach for Estimating 'Missing' Prices

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 467-480

  Swartz, Wilf ^a   Sumaila, Rashid ^a   Watson, Reg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ex vessel price; Global marine fisheries; Landed value

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FISH; FISHERIES; FISHING VESSELS;

EX-VESSEL PRICE; GLOBAL MARINES; LANDED VALUE; MARINE FISH STOCKS; PRICE ESTIMATION; PURCHASING POWER PARITY; REAL EXCHANGE RATE; RELATIVE PRICES;

COST ESTIMATING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; PRICE DYNAMICS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; VESSEL;

EID: 84888842070     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-012-9611-1     Document Type: Article

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