The objective of the paper is to analyse and to simulate fishers dis-investment behaviour especially in the context of the French buyback policy. A case study, the limited entry scallop fishery of the Saint-Brieuc bay is used to consider the problem of excess capacity and to review the impact of...
The small scale fisheries are generally unknown over the world due to a crucial lack of data, and particularly costs and earnings data. This is also true for the European fisheries while vessels less than 12 meters represent almost 75% of the total European fleet. Faced to the increasing price...
While indicators and assessment frameworks are being developed for ecosystems, and tools for determining the economic status of a fishery are readily available, integrated assessment tools are still mostly lacking. However, the development of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management requires the monitoring and assessment of exploited ecosystems in all...
Assessing distribution of the expected bio-economic impacts of
management measures between fleet segments is a main issue for decision
making in fisheries management. This requires as a first step a good
description of the system and of the interactions between fleets through
stocks. Making this assessment operational also needs flexible...
Mediterranean fisheries are characterized by a high diversity of fishing
strategies that can be differentiated according to a gradient from the coast
to the offshore area. Over the gradient, fleets interact through the resource.
The paper first provides a description of the fishing strategies and proposes
a typology for the...
If the study of the fisheries dynamics increasingly seeks to take into
account the evolution of fishing fleets, the main mechanisms which govern
their evolution at the local, national or international levels, are often not
studied at all, or only partially studied. This applies in particular to vessel
entry and...
The main objectives assigned to ecosystemic indices are to fuel the debate on the best ways to reduce the impact of global warming. Fishing activities are also concerned with the debate. The assessments carried out about fish products show that the use of fuel in the fishing stage has the...
While the need to solve problems of overcapitalization and excess investment in fisheries is now broadly
admitted, very little information exists on the level of capitalization and the structure of capital invested in
the fishing sector. This paper presents the first results of a research program aiming at assessing the...
Indicators of the economic performance of fishing vessels are frequently computed in many countries. Usually, measures of economic performance are based on the return on capital invested. However, several measures of capital value exist, according to the economic information available. In this paper, we use different types of information to...
This paper compares two methods for collecting data concerning professional fishing fleets economic performance : use of preexisting bookkeeping databases and ad hoc field surveys of fishers. Each method has its pros and cons and, for practical reasons, it may be necessary to make use of both. Such a feature...