Share contracts and their rationale: Lessons from marine fishing
分析渔业中占主导地位的分成合同，解释其计算方式、维修支出处理、关联交易及例外情况，并探讨环境条件对合同性质的影响，对研究合同选择和发展中国家渔业问题的学者有参考价值。
Most of the existing literature on share contracts is based explicitly or implicitly on agriculture, a sector in which share contracts are seldom dominant and apparently on the decline. Moreover, since agricultural activities have some rather special characteristics, the purpose of the present article is to analyse contractual choice and especially the choice of share contracts in a sector in which share contracts are dominant, namely fishing. In the process of explaining the dominance of share contracts in fishing, the article also explains (a) some heretofore neglected features of these share contracts, such as the way in which shares are calculated and the treatment of repair and maintenance expenditures, (b) the nature and extent of interlinked transactions, (c) the exceptional cases where share contracts are not used, and (d) the relevance of varying environmental conditions and especially those of poor developing countries to the nature of contracts in fishing, and to the differences therein between agriculture and fishing.