The Decline of the English and Welsh Fishing Fleet?

Advances in Fisheries Science: 50 years on from Beverton and Holt

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 26-48

  Hutton, Trevor ^a   Mardle, Simon ^b   Tidd, Alex N ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Application of methods in fisheries economics; Decision of individual owners to enter, stay or exit a fleet and actual or expected profit; Decline in fishing vessels number; Demise of fishing industry in England and Wales; English and Welsh fishing fleet and their decline; Individual transferable quota (ITQ) system; Production frontiers and efficiency estimation; Regulating fisheries within political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889270535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444302653.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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