Fish Population Dynamic and Stock Assessment (2+1)

10.1.6 Eumetric fishing

This scheme calls for gear restrictions to achieve a right age composition of the catch function for a given level of effort. The demerits of enumetic fishing is that it forces the fleet on to a higher cost curve dissipating thereby the potential economic benefits. Further there will not be any economic gains by allowing fish to grow to a size that in eumetic with gear because the marginal revenue from growth is affect by marginal cost of programme implementation and also by M. ie national mostely (crutchfield, 1979).