There are many fishing landing areas in southern Iran, distributed all along the northern Persian
Gulf. Despite increasing effort, the total catch has fluctuated in recent years. Iran is facing with
over capacity of vessels and too many fishers, yet simultaneously political, social and
economical pressures exist for expansion of...
The deep sea fisheries in Sri Lanka have been in existence since the late 1980s. After 2000 a significant
growth has been experienced in the industry. This has mostly been due to the rapid increase of new
vessels with modern technology and the development of export market opportunities. The Sri...
Two economic base analysis techniques that identify and measure
commercial fishery dependency at the local level are compared. The most
common method, the location quotient technique, uses direct metrics of
economic activity (sales, employment, wages, or value-added) to compare
a local economy with a reference economy. We compared this technique...
Vietnam’s policy is to shift the fishing pressure from onshore to offshore water since the coastal resource has been overexploited, and a programme for investing in offshore vessels has thus been implemented since 1997. The question raised is whether the offshore fishing fleet is profitable and efficient or not? This...
The paper will report on the development of a new set of wealth-based
Fishery Performance Indicators (FPI) for evaluating and comparing the
worlds fisheries management systems. A wealth-based fishery management
system is one that is ecologically sustainable, socially acceptable, and
generates sustainable resource rents or profits. The Fishery Performance
Indicators...
Chronic overcapacity has been identified as a major cause of the overfishing of Europe’s fish stocks and
the poor economic performance of the European fishing fleets. Mechanisms are needed to ensure that the
capacity of European fishing fleets remain proportionate to available fish stocks. To that end, the
European Commission...
Indicators are widely used in fisheries management decision process as
measures for monitoring ecosystem status or management performance. In
the current context, the shift to an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries
management requires to complete usual population or community
indicators with indicators reflecting state and dynamics of fishing activity
as well...
Catch share systems are being encouraged and considered in a variety of United States (U.S.) fisheries. Scientists, policy makers, and stakeholders (including fishermen and non-governmental environmental organizations) have different views about potential social and economic impacts and outcomes of these output- oriented systems. Thus identifying and evaluating impacts over time...
The article provides policy guiding recommendations for enhancing the sustainable development of Senegal’s marine fishery system. A new sustainable development assessment method is proposed and is applied to Senegal’s marine fishery in order to provide these recommendations.
A discussion of the conditions for sustainable development suggest that the sustainable development...
In other to implement the ecosystems approach to take care of fisheries and
their surrounding environment, multidisciplinary indicators are need. One
of these indicators, which may be useful to measure the health of an
ecosystem, is biodiversity. Thus, firstly this paper deals with defining,
measuring and comparing alternative biodiversity index...