Economics for Fisheries Management

Download or read book Economics for Fisheries Management written by R. Quentin Grafton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and low returns. Using recent developments in microeconomic theory and with numerous case studies and examples, this book shows how to measure efficiency, productivity, profitability, capacity of fishing fleets and how to improve fisheries management. The book will prove invaluable to researchers, students and professionals interested in understanding the problems in fisheries and how they may be overcome.