Fisheries resources are an important component of natural resources. It
is an important source of high-quality animal protein and food for
humans, which provides employment, economic benefits and social welfare
for people engaged in fishing activities. It also has played an
important role in food safety, economic development, and foreign trade.
Fisheries resources economics is an important branch of both applied
economics and resource economics. Its research object is fishery
resources and its economic problems. The economics of fishery resources
is to focus on the relationship between the demand for human economic
activities and the supply of fishery resources, as well as between
fishery resources and its development. This book expounds the reasons
for the economic problems of fishery resources and the theoretical
principles for solving them, so as to reveal the objective rules of the
allocation of fishery resources in different regions and at different
times, to coordinate the relationship between the utilization of fishery
resources and economic development, and to realize the sustainable
development of fishery economy. This book will also provide learning
materials for undergraduates, graduate students and practitioners
engaged in fishery resources development and scientific management.
