The coastal fishery in French Guyana is a challenging case study for the implementation of the ecosystem based fishery management. Although the current situation of this small scale fishery could be considered as satisfactory, the viability of the fishery can be questioned. Indeed according to demographic scenarios, the growth of...
This contribution employs a „fish chain‟ approach or ocean to plate analysis to examine key market drivers affecting Northern Gulf cod fisheries recovery since their collapse in the early 1990s. Drawing upon the backward bending supply model of fisheries; secondary data was compiled and analyzed for the pre- and post-collapse...
Existing research on the effectiveness of marine protected areas narrowly focuses on developing sets of management
indicators tied to outcomes described in management plans or on the achievement of a single objective such as an
increase in the size or number of older, more fecund female fish in a protected...
The aquaculture sector is uniquely placed to complement production from the stagnating capture fisheries sector and it has advantages in terms of controllable production characteristics. However, aquaculture poses undeniable economic, environmental and social challenges that may be poorly evaluated or inadequately addressed within current policy frameworks. In such cases, the...
To ensure the long-term conservation and sustainable use of straddling fish stocks, the 1995 United
Nations Fish Stock Agreement calls for the establishment of regional fisheries management organizations
to manage such stocks. This paper studies the potential for cooperation in straddling stock fisheries when
the cooperative coalition of countries acts...
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...
In most of the coastal countries, the fisheries enable to satisfy multiple socio-economic needs such as food safety, public receipts, employment and so on. It is especially true in many coastal developing countries where fisheries constitute a considerable source of food and incomes. However, the strong pressure on the fisheries...
40 years ago the Atlanto-Scandian herring stock collapsed with severe consequences for Iceland´s monotonic economy at that time. Two years ago the international credit crisis brought the country´s largest banks to insolvency, which shocked the whole economy with butterfly effects in neighbouring countries. The paper begins with an overview of...
More than half a million small fishers in the Philippines have been availing of loans from Quedancor, the credit arm of the Department of Agriculture. The financing scheme has been quite successful with repayment rate at 95%. However, the occurrence of natural calamities such as typhoons; as well as pests...
Stock assessment techniques currently used in the United States are extremely costly to implement, involve significant data requirements, and are inaccessible to all but a few stock assessment scientists. A systematic decrease in fishery yields and the designation of several species as overfished on the west coast of the United...