Although the formal process of Brexit has started, there is high uncertainty about Brexit’s impacts on the future of demersal mixed fisheries in the North Sea. As migratory demersal stocks (e.g. cod, haddock, hake and saithe) traverse the zones of various countries, one challenging issue is to agree on how...
European carp farmers face many challenges in our days. Changed consumer habits, droughts, fish loss through birds endanger their profitability. Our study have selected two European carp regions as case study: The Aischgrund in Germany and Barycz Valley in Poland. Since the new millennium, opinion leaders have introduced initiatives to...
The spatio-temporal overlap of morphologically undistinguishable weak and healthy stocks is a major concern for the Pacific Northwest troll Chinook salmon fishery. Regular fishery closures have led to major financial losses calling for alternative regulatory measures. One approach for such complex and pressing socio-ecological challenges is the transition towards transdisciplinary...
Impact assessments (IA) are a requirement for all new European Union regulations. A central part is the analysis of social and economic impacts. For fisheries regulation the European Commission is responsible to provide the IA to a board within the EC. They are not doing the analytical assessments and data...
This study compares globally available integrated ecological-economic models with focus on use and implementation in scientific and advisory contexts. The Ecosystem based Approach to (Fisheries) Management (EAM) calls for an understanding and management of fisheries and other uses of the marine environment that explicitly take into account ecological, economic and...