Social networks and fishers' behavior: Exploring the links between information flow and fishing success in the Northumberland lobster fishery

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fisheries management; Fishers' behavior; Fishing success; Information sharing; Lobster fisheries; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING COMMUNITY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LOBSTER FISHERY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ENGLAND; NORTHUMBERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84903721218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06456-190238     Document Type: Article

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