Stresses that, if the traditional UK wet fish organisations are to survive competition, then a changed approach to fish marketing is required. Attempts to trace recent developments in the marketing system for fish, following on from Taylor's work in the late 1950s. Concerns itself with the...

Concerns itself with the growth prospects for the West African fishing industry, decides that attempts to reform marketing in isolation from the system of financing will be unsuccessful. Wonders what can be done to identify constraints to trade, and this involves more than a mere understanding...

Roger Scruton and others argue that market-based approaches and voluntary civic organizations can solve many environmental problems. The author argues in response that there are significant limitations to quota systems and similar market fixes, while NGOs and civil society “networks” are not...

Certain scarce resources seem indivisible, unlike, e.g., land and cattle. But some such resources can be, and have been, turned into private property. In offshore fishing grounds, individual tranferable quotas have been issued to fishing firms that have, as a result, become custodians of fish...

Purpose – Regulating common‐pool resources is welfare enhancing for society but not necessarily for all users who may therefore oppose regulations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the short‐term impact of common‐pool resource regulations on welfare distribution....

Purpose – The primary objective of this paper is to show how mathematical modeling can be used for solving a third party logistics (3PL) allocation problem. Design/methodology/approach – The solution approach consists of finding a compromise solution for the six different strategies, defined...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a new slaughter line for industrial slaughtering of salmonid fish. Traditionally, slaughtering of farmed salmonids – salmon and rainbow trout – was done manually by bleed cutting with knives. Using the new slaughter line that includes 3D...

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and assess the problems of distribution and logistics that arise in the fishery sector in Greece and to examine the impact of market orientation with regard to these problems. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the findings of a survey...