How Resolving the Class II Common Property Problem: The case of the Bcgroundfish Trawl Fishery

Advances in Fisheries Economics: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Gordon R. Munro

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-73

  Grafton, R Q ^a   Nelson, H W ^b   Turris, B ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Pacific Fisheries Management Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

British columbia; Description; Groundfish; Management; Rent dissipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889355891     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751589.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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