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Fish, markets, and fishermen: The economics of overfishing
Iudicello, S.; Weber, M.; Wieland, R. (1999). Fish, markets, and fishermen: The economics of overfishing. Earthscan Publications: London. ISBN 1-85383-651-6. 192 pp.

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    VLIZ: Fisheries Science FIS.81 [103032]

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    Marine/Coastal

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  • Iudicello, S.
  • Weber, M.
  • Wieland, R.

Abstract
    A significant number of the world's ocean fisheries are depleted, and some have collapsed, from overfishing. Although many of the same fishermen who are causing these declines stand to suffer the most from them, they continue to overfish. Why is this happening? What can be done to solve the problem. The authors of Fish, Markets, and Fishermen argue that the reasons are primarily economic, and that overfishing is an inevitable consequence of the current sets of incentives facing ocean fishermen. This volume illuminates these incentives as they operate both in the aggregate and at the level of day-to-day decision-making by vessel skippers. The authors provide a primer on fish population biology and the economics of fisheries under various access regimes, and use that information in analyzing policies for managing fisheries. The book:

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