Fishing for Litter: Creating an Economic Market for Marine Plastics in a Sustainable Fisheries Model

This paper studies an economy specialized in fisheries facing a rising marine litter problem. We present a dynamic optimization model to explain the mechanism through which marine litter causes inefficiencies in the fishery sector. We do so by investigating the properties of the model when the marin...

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Main Authors: Linh Nguyen, Roy Brouwer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.722815/full