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Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Jonathan M. Harris, Tufts University
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Chapter 14: Natural Resource Use--Fisheries
- What is the maximum sustained yield of a renewable resource?
- What is the difference between a stable and unstable equilibrium?
- What are the shapes of the total revenue and total cost curves for a fishery?
- What are the shapes of the various cost and revenue curves for a fishery?
- What is the normal relationship between the economic optimum, the open-access equilibrium, and the maximum sustained yield for a fishery?
- What are some policies that could be instituted to encourage sustainable fishery management?
- What are individual transferable quotas?
- Why is shifting human consumption patterns important for sustainable fishery management?
- What is ecolabeling and how could it be used to encourage sustainable fishery management?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of aquaculture?
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