Stretching our fish stocks: Expanding price-inelastic demand is stretching fisheries resources to the limit, while business is booming, despite overinvestment and stock depletion

Brandt, Hartmut (1999) Stretching our fish stocks: Expanding price-inelastic demand is stretching fisheries resources to the limit, while business is booming, despite overinvestment and stock depletion. Samudra Report (23). pp. 37-42. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

There is a basic contradiction in today’s fisheries. Despite serious overfishing and stock depletion, and despite considerable overinvestment in fish-catching capacity, fishing enterprises remain profitable. A recent FAO report notes that worldwide, 60-70 per cent of stocks require urgent intervention to control or reduce fishing effort to avoid further decline of fully exploited and overfished resources and to rebuild depleted stocks. Nonetheless, the report notes, in spite of fully and sometimes overexploited fishery resources, most marine capture fisheries are economically and financially viable

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0284
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Fisheries Resources, Depletion, Fish Stock, Cost Benefit Analysis, Fish Quality
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2021 10:08
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2022 08:44
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/675

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