Demographic aging is a growing issue in fisheries where the lack of generational turnover
has resulted in fewer young people entering, becoming upwardly mobile, and investing in
operations, with considerable long-term implications for food security, occupational diversity,
and rural communities in particular. Although there is a growing body of qualitative literature
dedicated to this issue, little has been done to quantitatively assess upward mobility in
fisheries. This study uses a discrete-time duration analysis to examine the factors that …