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Targeted versus nontargeted multispecies fishing

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In multispecies fisheries, different technological harvest conditions imply different long-run bioeconomic equilibria. Optimal and open access exploitation by a single fleet of two ecologically independent species is considered. Two polar cases are studied: Targeted fishing, when fishermen have to choose at any moment which species to target; and Nontargeted fishing, when more than one species is caught at the same time. The relative efficiency of several policy measures is examined for both cases.

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  1. Department of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon), Lisbon, Portugal

    C. Costa Duarte

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Duarte, C.C. Targeted versus nontargeted multispecies fishing. Environ Resource Econ 2, 259–281 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376200

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