DISCARD BEHAVIOR, HIGHGRADING AND REGULATION: THE CASE OF THE GREENLAND SHRIMP FISHERY

A formal economic analysis of the discarding problem is presented, focusing on the individual fisherman and the effect of different regulations on the fisherman's incentives to discard. It is shown that in a nonregulated fishery, either multispecies or single species/multisize, where the only c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vestergaard, Niels
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AgEcon Search 1996
Subjects:
Tac
Online Access:http://purl.umn.edu/28130