Economics for Fisheries Management

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. Contents: The economics of fishing and fisheries economics; Data for economic analysis of commercial fisheries; Measurement and analysis of efficiency in fisheries; Understanding and measuring capacity in fisheries; Measuring productivity and decomposing profits in fisheries; Economics for fisheries management; Glossary; Index.