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Cost-benefit analysis of the Greenland offshore shrimp fishery

Vestergaard, Niels; Stoyanova, Kristiana A.; Wagner, Claas - 2010

This paper examines the social economic value of the Greenland off-shore shrimp fishery. The contribution of the … fishery to the economy is examined using a cost-benefit analysis where the objective of the report is to examine the current … state of the fishery rather than possible changes, which are a political decision. The analysis is undertaken by examining …

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A size-based ecosystem model

Ravn-Jonsen, Lars J. - 2009

Ecosystem Management requires models that can link the ecosystem level to the operation level. This link can be created by an ecosystem production model. Because the function of the individual fish in the marine ecosystem, seen in trophic context, is closely related to its size, the model groups...

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Lobbyism and Climate Change in Fisheries: A Political Support Function Approach

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2005

This paper seeks to investigate the following issues: What is the resulting out-come, when regulation is determined by interest groups that compete for influ-ence over the regulatory process? Given this, can we predict how climate change related changes in the underlying biological factors will...

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The Effect of Climate Change on the Probability of Conservation: Fisheries Regulation as a Policy Contest

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2006

This paper considers the policy outcome of a contest between two opposing in-terest groups: the incumbent fishermen and a group of conservationalists. The objective of the fishermen is to maximize profit, and they are (partly) concerned over future profitability as well, while the...

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