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Refocusing Seafood Sustainability as a Journey Using the Law of the Minimum
Tlusty, Michael; Tausig, Heather; Taranovski, Tania; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 9, pp. 2038-2050
Globally, seafood is an important protein source because it is a nutritious food source produced with relative efficiency compared to other proteins. Because of problems related to overfishing and deleterious environmental impacts, over the last decade, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have...
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Stakeholder Dialogues and Shared Understanding: The Case of Co-Managing Fisheries in Sweden
Lundholm, Cecilia; Stöhr, Christian - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 7, pp. 4525-4536
dialogues and shared understanding in the context of co-managed fisheries aiming at participation and learning to increase …
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Economic Risk and Efficiency Assessment of Fisheries in Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE): A Stochastic Approach
Fathelrahman, Eihab; Basarir, Aydin; Gheblawi, Mohamed; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3878-3898
The fishing industry in Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), plays an important role in diversifying food sources in order to enhance national food security. The fishing industry is facing an increasing risk that may impact the sustainability (<i>i.e.</i>, quantity and quality) of the fish caught and...
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Vertically Differentiating Environmental Standards: The Case of the Marine Stewardship Council
Bush, Simon R.; Oosterveer, Peter - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1861-1883
of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). We analyze this process in two dimensions. First, fisheries employ strategies to … additional recognition for these activities through co-labelling with, amongst others, international NGOs. Second, fisheries not … yet able to meet the requirements of MSC standards are being enrolled in NGO and private sector sponsored Fisheries …
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Sustaining Sanak Island, Alaska: A Cultural Land Trust
Reedy-Maschner, Katherine L.; Maschner, Herbert D. G. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 10, pp. 4406-4427
Sanak Island is the easternmost of the Aleutian Islands and was inhabited by the Aleut (Unangan) peoples for nearly 7000 years. The past few centuries of Sanak Island life for its Aleut residents can be summarized from ethnohistoric documents and extensive interviews with former residents as...
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The Impacts of Marine Reserves on Limited-Entry Fisheries
Sanchirico, James; Wilen, James - 2000
We utilize a spatial bioeconomic model to investigate the impacts of creating reserves on limited-entry fisheries. We …
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Reserve Site Selection in a Limited-Entry Fishery
Sanchirico, James - 2002
productivity of fisheries. Using simulation analysis, we investigate in a limited-entry fishery comprising nine subpopulations the …
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Classroom Games: The Allocation of Renewable Resources Under Different Property Rights and Regulation Schemes
Giraud, Kelly L.; Herrmann, Mark - In: Journal of Economic Education 33 (2002) 3, pp. 236-253
The authors describe a renewable resource allocation game designed to stimulate students’ interest in and understanding of market failure associated with open-access types of resource use. They also use the game to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various property rights and...
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Effects of Global Fisheries on Developing Countries: Possibilities for Income and Threat of Depletion
Eggert, Håkan; Greaker, Mads - 2009
This study deals with fisheries and trade, focusing on developing countries. Fish is globally traded, and for many … developing countries, it is an important net export good. In most of these countries, fisheries are often characterized by poorly … they can catch due to limited monitoring and enforcement activities. Even in developed countries, many fisheries are poorly …
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Bioeconomics of a Marine Disease
Rondeau, Daniel; Conrad, Jon M. - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014
We study the economic impact of the viral disease AVG, its stochastic transmission across abalone reefs in southern Australia, and the optimal management response as AVG approaches an uninfected reef. Using conservative estimates of the virulence and mortality rates associated with the disease,...
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