The status of fishing industry participants and fishing communities is an increasingly important consideration in marine ecosystem models and in fisheries management. Metrics that reliably measure economic, health, and other dimensions of human well-being are required to analyze the impacts of changes in marine ecosystems and policy. To date, most...
Complex social–ecological systems such as small-scale fisheries require the inclusion of human dimensions in fisheries management and planning for simultaneously preserving human health and habitat health.However, linkages between ecological, social, political and economic subsystems have been largely ignored in conventional fisheries management, in Nigeria in particular. Hence, the weak governance...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.