Barbier, Edward; Strand, Ivar - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 12 (1998) 2, pp. 151-166
This paper explores the value of mangrove systems as a breeding and nursery habitat for off-shore fisheries, focusing … on mangrove-shrimp production linkages in Campeche State, Mexico. We develop an open access fishery model to account … explicitly for the effect of mangrove area on carrying capacity and thus production. From the long-run equilibrium conditions of …