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...
Trends in key fisheries indicators are presented to provide the context for a profile of the economic health of the world's marine fisheries. Estimates of the economic value of global marine fishery production and costs of production are used as inputs to an economic model to derive a range of...
This presentation provides an introduction to the FAO-World Bank Rent Drain Study. The objective of the study is to present the story of the world's depleted and overexploited marine fisheries in economic terms.
The study develops an economic justification at the global level for restoring the health of fish stocks....