Estimates of illegal and unreported fish in seafood imports to the USA

Marine Policy

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 102-113

  Pramod, Ganapathiraju ^a   Nakamura, Katrina ^b   Pitcher, Tony J ^a   Delagran, Leslie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Sustainability Incubator   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese reprocessing; Illegal fishing; Lacey Act; Russian fisheries; Seafood traceability; Thailand tuna

Indexed keywords

FISHERY ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY POLICY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; IMPORT; POLICY ANALYSIS; SEAFOOD;

CHINA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THAILAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897932194     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.03.019     Document Type: Article

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