Journal of Research in Ecology
JRE
Ecology
http://ecologyresearch.info/
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2319-1546
2319-1554
en
2017
08
15
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online
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fulltext
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Assessing the impact of environmental accidents and drought on the economy of fishery (case study: Iranian whitefish)
Ecology
Original Research
The unbalanced Caspian Sea ecosystem caused by dams on rivers and the indiscriminate use of river’s fresh water and contamination of fishery ponds and also factors like overfishing and excessive harvesting of river’s water and loss of natural hatcheries in rivers and coastal wetlands have led to the catastrophic reduction in reserves and the economically valuable fishing of whitefish. In this study, the annual wholesale and retail prices and the production of whitefish in Iran during 2010 to 2014 were collected. Our results showed that there is a significant relation between environmental accidents and drought on the fisheries economy. In other words, by increasing the environmental accidents and drought, the whitefish’s retail and wholesale price increase.
Whitefish, Drought, Environmental accidents, Fishery economy.
859
866
http://ecologyresearch.info/documents/EC0322.pdf
Azadeh
Shahbazian
azadeshahbazian95@gmail.com
yes
PhD Student of Agricultural Economics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Yaghoub
Zeraatkish
No
Agricultural Economics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran