Book description
Fisheries Economics has always been an interdisciplinary field of study
with economic analysis based on stock population dynamics, but many
published works have focused mainly on theoretical economic issues
without much focus on biological details. For the most part, age
structured models have been ignored.
Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management
is a valuable reference text that presents the economic aspects of
fisheries management in a broad bioeconomic framework.
The book is
broken into two parts. Part I covers the traditional areas of
fisheries economics, covering topics such as open access, optimal and
managed fisheries utilization that is analyzed through a traditional
one stock/one fleet model. It also presents the basic results in terms
of an age structured model. Part II covers material related to more
recent work on bioeconomic models when more rigorous biological
components became more prevalent, and views fisheries management with
an ecosystems-based approach. Accompanying the book is a user-friendly
CD with exercises and examples that aids the reader in applying
theoretical principles of population dynamics and fisheries management
and regulation. Bioeconomics of Fisheries Management will be a
valuable text for researchers, fisheries economists, professionals,
and students alike.
Lee G. Anderson is Maxwell P. and Mildred H.
Harrington Professor of Marine Policy in the College of Earth, Ocean,
and Environment and Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware.
Juan Carlos Seijo is Director of Research and Professor of the
School of Natural Resources at Universidad Marista de Merida.
