The main objective of this paper is to analyze the economics effects that
the Prestige oil spill over (2003) had on the Basque coastal fishing industry
by means of a two-stage stochastic production frontier approach. The first
stage is based on the econometric specification of a parametric production
frontier based...
In other to implement the ecosystems approach to take care of fisheries and
their surrounding environment, multidisciplinary indicators are need. One
of these indicators, which may be useful to measure the health of an
ecosystem, is biodiversity. Thus, firstly this paper deals with defining,
measuring and comparing alternative biodiversity index...