Economies of Scale and Stock-Dependence in Pelagic Harvesting: The Case of Northern Chile

Hugo Dufey, Michael Basch and Julio Peña

Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, 1999, vol. 36, issue 108, 841-873

Abstract: Pelagic species are one of the fish stocks which are most vulnerable to unrestrained fishing. Their initial abundance has been a source for substantial profits in the past, with several fishing collapses resulting from it. This paper analyses the case of

Keywords: (Chilean) pelagic fisheries; harvesting functions; economies of scale; panel estimation; cobb-douglas and translog production functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 L7 Q22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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