Sardines and anchovies are small pelagic fishes that support important commercial fisheries around the world. This project reviews the inverse cyclic behavior in the abundance of these two stocks, which is a striking feature in many regions. In addition, the project used qualitative loop analysis techniques to analyze the feasible...
The World Bank has fostered introduction of an individual quota
management system in the world's largest fishery based on both economic
and social studies. The implementation of the quota legislation has
uncovered a range of issues which were largely foreseen but fall outside the
remit of the fisheries authorities. The...
This paper is aimed at studying the relationship between marine environmental conditions and purse seine anchovy fishery of Alboran Sea through a stock-recruitment model using an historical data set of anchovy fishery in the Northern Alboran Sea that covers two decades from 1985 to 2005 and the HadISST and Era...
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a methodology which allows to compare the efficiency of different management strategies in order to ensure the sustainability, in particular those based on viable control theory. Classic strategies (like precautionary approach of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES) were compared to...
The paper analyzes the recent behavior of the Peruvian Anchoveta Sector, the largest single stock fishery in the world. It describes the different phases of boom and contraction that it has undergone since the 1960s, and how the lack of adequate regulation allowed –and even fostered– over-investment in the sector...
Anchovy fishery of Georgia (North Eastern Black Sea) has experienced a
considerable decline since the 80ths. The Ministry of Environment
Protection and Natural Resources (MEPNR) is in charge of fisheries
management since 1994 and is implementing since late 2006 a new
licensing system based on auction concept. According this management...