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The Importance of Selected Individual Characteristics in Determining Market Prices for Fishers and Traders in Kenyan Small-Scale Fisheries

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Pages 959-974 | Received 20 Dec 2013, Accepted 12 Sep 2014, Published online: 15 May 2015

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