Table 16.6 Two Firms Share a Common Fishery. One Strategy Available to Available

Table 16.6
Two firms share a common fishery. One strategy available to the firms is to fish sustainably. This maintains a healthy breeding population of fish, and keeps the price of fish relatively high. The other strategy is to overfish. This reduces the breeding population and fish prices tend to fall. The game is represented in the following table.

-Refer to Table 16-6. The Nash equilibrium for this game is for:

A) both firms to over-fish
B) firm A to over-fish and firm B to fish sustainably
C) firm B to over-fish and firm A to fish sustainably
D) both firms to fish sustainably

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