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The Economic Viability of Small- vs. Large-Scale Fisheries: An Example from Mexico

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Schuhbauer, Anna, Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés, and Sumaila, U. Rashid

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Achieving economic viability is an important goal when it comes to developing policies for sustainable fisheries management, especially for small-scale fisheries (SSF). SSF are vital for many coastal communities, however, often economically and politically marginalized. Here, we develop and estimate what we denote as ‘basic economic viability’ of SSF, using...

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Strategies for Fishery Subsidy Reform

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Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Munro, Gordon R., Sanjurjo, Enrique, and Hernandez Trejo, Victor

Abstract:

Subsidies can directly support unsustainable fishing practices that harm both ecosystems and long-term social and economic benefits. Globally, fishery subsidies total around US$27 billion, yet their impacts on fishing dynamics are specific to given regions or particular fisheries and fishery subsidies within a nation have markedly different effects when applied...

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