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Prices, Marketing Margins, and Structural Change in the King Mackerel Marketing System*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Fred J. Prochaska
Fred J. Prochaska*
Affiliation:
University of Florida
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Extract

The age-old conflict between producers and market middlemen in the food industry has surfaced in the finfish industry with respect to market prices, producer prices, and marketing margins. Unrest among fishermen (producers) about the performance of the marketing system for various species of finfish has sparked numerous protests in the United States. Some protests have ended in lawsuits; in other cases, marketing cooperatives and/or marketing associations have been formed to integrate several steps in the marketing process. These events have been common in the Florida Atlantic Coast marketing system.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , July 1978 , pp. 105 - 109
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1978

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Footnotes

*

This research was funded jointly by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and the State University system Sea Grant College.

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