The fish market has a long tradition in economic literature. Many authors refer to it when they want to investigate the organisation of exchanges, whether from the point of view of equilibrium or disequilibrium. This market constitutes a kind of economic paradox in the sense that, in many cases, first...
DOGMATIS is a research project funded by the French Research Agency (ANR, programme ANR-OGM 2007-2010). The transgenic technologies have been applied to fish since more than 20 years now and some strains are at the premarket or market stage in countries outside Europe. In Europe the main risk is a...
Although many countries develop dominating export conventions aimed
for strengthen the fishing industry export based economy, the export
performance varies. The institutional reasons for such differences in
performance are investigated in a comparative study of the Norwegian and
Icelandic export of salted cod to the Spanish market. Iceland has over...
Although the share of total fish supply which is traded internationally is fairly stable, the patterns of trade flows are in constant change. China and Viet Nam are increasingly emerging as processors and suppliers of value-added products to world markets, but also within the world’s various regions new players are...
While indicators and assessment frameworks are being developed for ecosystems, and tools for determining the economic status of a fishery are readily available, integrated assessment tools are still mostly lacking. However, the development of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management requires the monitoring and assessment of exploited ecosystems in all...
This paper addressed the budgeting analysis of catfish marketing in Ondo
State. The catfish sellers were interviewed from the market with the aid of
structured questionnaire and personal interviews. Data were collected using
simple random sampling technique from fifty (50) marketers. The data
collected were analyzed using frequencies, percentages, profitability...
Research of value chains in fish industries indicates that there is great
difference in value creation of the domestic part of the value chain between
countries with underdeveloped fish industries and developed fish
industries. This comparison is founded on the authors´ research on the
value chains of Icelandic cod and...
The expansion of the aquaculture sector over the last two decades has coincided with the growth in
importance of supermarkets in fish retailing in the EU. This paper presents a Value Chain analysis of
selected species from their point of production in Bangladesh to the major consumer markets in Europe,...
Fishery is one of the sub-sectors of agri-cultural sector which plays a
significant role in the economy of Bangladesh. However, fishermen are
deprived from getting reasonable prices of their catches due to a large price
spread between the price paid by the ultimate consumers or users and price
received by...
Fresh fish trade in Kribi, Cameroon is characterized by high uncertainty in a context of specific assets. Facing this uncertainty, actors have developed hybrid coordination mechanisms centered on contractual arrangements and networks. These implicit contractual arrangements involve price negotiation, delivery agreements between fishermen and buyers, as well as transactions including...