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The economics of fishing /
A comprehensive and rigorous guide to the economic considerations motivating the industry and highlights the environmental challenges facing the sector as global consumption of fish continues to rise.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2021.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Economics of big business.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- 1 Introduction
- Fisheries versus aquaculture
- Capture fisheries
- Natural fluctuations
- The 200-mile zone: a sea change
- Approaches to fisheries management
- 2 World fisheries: some basic facts
- World production of fish
- Is there a "crisis" in world fisheries?
- Fishery products and their role in world food supplies
- International trade in fish
- The fishing industry
- Notes
- 3 Aquaculture
- Aquaculture versus capture fisheries
- Salmon farming
- Risks in salmon farming
- Feeding the farmed fish
- Notes
- 4 Elementary fisheries economics
- The interaction between fishing, the fish stock and stock growth
- Some fundamental economic relationships
- A more general approach
- Age-structured models
- An example: the Northeast Arctic cod
- Ricker's recruitment model
- Notes
- 5 Natural fluctuations of fish stocks
- Sustainability and variable stocks
- The Norwegian spring-spawning herring
- The Northern cod of Newfoundland
- The California sardine
- The Barents Sea capelin
- Inter-annual variability and long waves
- Notes
- 6 The 200-mile zone: a sea change
- A brief history of the modern law of the sea
- The impact of the 200-mile zone
- Regional fisheries management organizations
- The wealth transfer of the 200-mile zone
- Notes
- 7 International fisheries management: cooperation or competition?
- Consequences of unfettered competition
- The scope for cooperation
- Migrating stocks
- Advances in fisheries management
- Notes
- 8 Fisheries management
- Individual quotas
- Transferability of quotas
- Control of quotas
- Alternatives to quota management
- Quotas for fluctuating fish stocks
- Landing fees as a control mechanism
- The political economy of fisheries
- Quota regimes worldwide
- Subsidies
- Notes
- 9 Conclusion
- Market-driven and science-based management
- Will the oceans feed a growing humanity?
- References
- List of figures and tables
- Index