To effectively respond to sustainability challenges, there is a need to find (or re-discover) suitable ways to govern, so as to make decisions that maintain healthy environments and sustainable livelihoods in fishery systems. While efforts to this end are needed at all governance levels, from the global to the local,...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B1: Experiences from Further Afield. The session was chaired by Professor Clara Ulrich, and the presentation was given by Dave...
This presentation provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B3: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome - fishermen's responses to the LO. The session was chaired by Dr. Erik Lindebo...
This presentation provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B4: LO - Government Solutions. The session was chaired by Professor Gil Sylvia and the presentation was given by...
Seafish has undertaken an economic impact assessment (EIA) of the landing obligation for key UK fleets targeting demersal stocks. The purpose of the EIA is to provide information that supports decision-making and understanding at a fleet segment, home nation and national level. The EIA has been undertaken in two phases:...
The generation of market information is critical in the dynamic and highly differentiated global seafood market. Information has strategic value and market information is therefore vital in creating and delivering value. However, the context of long, globalised supply chains and highly differentiated seafood markets results in value chain members having...
Joint production of multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services that enter in multiple markets complicates the standard interpretations of baselines, additionality, and the process of stacking. Intuitively, joint production means that the process of providing the multiple offsets and/or ecosystem services is interrelated, and nonjointness means that each offset or ecosystem...
The conflict between hydropower production and the free movement of migratory fish in river basins is longstanding. Currently, hydropower is a notable source of renewable energy, and its importance in regulating the seasonal supply of energy, as well as in substituting fossil fuel energy, is considerable. However, once hydropower plants...
General population stated preference surveys are generally drawn from random samples that typically contain a large number of urban households relative to rural households due to the spatial distribution of populations. Given this, it is important to understand and assess whether differences in the preferences and values these two populations...
The goal of this research is to analyse the employment trajectories of more than 1300 fishermen in the French region of Pays de la Loire (Atlantic coast). The dynamic analysis of careers in the fishing sector is of importance to predict the future of this sector. Indeed, the flexibility of...
The H2020 SUCCESS project aims at improving the competitiveness and economic sustainability of the European seafood sector. A part of the project deals with the understanding of the consumption patterns in different European countries. Knowing that TV and other media programmes can have an impact on consumption choices, this paper...
Based on financial risk analysis and portfolio theory, this paper aims to estimate the underlying risk of the European fish quota distribution among European member States along the time. Firstly, we have assigned a fishing portfolio to each member state (FP(jt)) and its related value based financial portfolio (FPV(ijt)), where...
This talk will introduce the special session on the Economics of Bycatch. It will provide an overview of the session. It will then discuss in general terms a variety of incentive-based approaches to managing bycatch that give vessels greater flexibility to devise cost-effective solutions of their own making. These include...
The management of internationally shared fish stocks is a major economic, environmental and political issue. According to international law, these resources should be managed cooperatively under international fisheries agreements (IFAs). This paper studies the formation and stability of IFAs through a coalition game that accounts for both direct consumptive values...
Background: Many studies have suggested that fisheries management may affect fishing safety. However, there has been relatively little systematic analysis of how fisheries management affects safety or the extent to which changes in management can make fishing safer or less safe.
Methods: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
The Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) encompasses coastal waters from North Carolina to Massachusetts and is home to many important fisheries. Two features make this region uniquely suited to study how institutions and climate change may interact to affect fishery outcomes. First, since the 1960s, the MAB has been warming at approximately...
Different user groups have different stakes in fisheries. The societal challenge is that, exploiting the same fish stock, or ecologically interacting stocks, recreational and customary fishermen interact with a continuum of commercial fishermen, ranging from very small-scale and part-time artisanal fishermen to large-scale fishing firms. In this paper we develop...
This presentation provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B4: LO - Government Solutions. The session was chaired by Professor Gil Sylvia and the presentation was given by...
The rapidly changing production processes in aquaculture has required large investments from fish framers, and over the last decades the demand for insurance to share and cover the risks involved has increased significantly within the aquaculture sector. On the other side, the availability of commercial aquaculture insurance is not widespread,...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A3: Reformed CFP - Implications for Routes to Market. The session was chaired by Marcus Coleman, and the presentation was...
Each year, over 20,000 metric tons of tuna are supplied to the Japanese market, of which 40% are caught by domestic vessels. Although the Japanese tuna market is large, little is known about the supply chain and the Japanese tuna fisheries’ behaviors. In this study, we investigate how Bluefin tuna...
Aquaculture has been identified term in the European Union Blue Growth strategy as an activity with high growth potential in the long term. The supply and demand of farmed salmon have been steadily growing in the EU. However, most of the salmon is imported to EU from Norway, while the...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The registration number and title of the special session were 5335: Innovations in governance of highly migratory and transboundary fisheries. The session was organized by Vishwanie Maharaj. The report includes discussion...
The agrofood sector is the first activity of the manufacturing industry in Europe, representing 14.6% of the total revenue and a value of more than € 1,048,000 mill. in 2014. Nevertheless, this economic subbranch is characterised by lower investment in R&D,the 0.53% level in 2009, than food and manufacturing industries...
A marine protected area (MPA) is a management tool used for biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries development, but it is less used for non-extractive uses of ecosystems such as eco-tourism. We estimate the willingness-to-pay for improved environmental qualities of the Nha Trang Bay MPA on one hand and employment effects...
Access to credit has been identified as a crucial tool in increasing fish production in the developing countries like Nigeria. Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF) was established for the purpose of boosting agricultural production (fish production inclusive). It is, therefore, imperative to study the Influence of Agricultural Credit Guarantee...
This presentation provides an overview of a Special Session presentation held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016, as well as details of the proceedings of the session.
Strategy of livelihood recovery should be promoted by community participation and their shelf-lesson learnt. This research assess the integration of sustainable livelihood strategies into fisheries livelihood recovery using indicators (poverty and income), external aid role, and fishing community engagement in arranging fisheries livelihood recovery. It was conducted in Krueng Raya...
The demand for fish and fish products is on the rise and being sought as a preferred alternative to other animal protein, owing to its taste, preference and proven health benefits. However the consumers’ urge in knowing the fish origin and its quality are decisive factors for determining its saleability....
Trust is a key aspect in managing fisheries. Individuals with low levels of political trust are more likely to accept illegal behavior. Institutional trust depends on beliefs about institutional behavior and on how competent an institution appears to be. The success of fisheries management depends on how fishermen perceive it....
Tilapia is the world's most popular aquaculture species farmed mostly in earthen ponds. Experience in China (the largest tilapia farming country) is used to develop and calibrate a bio-economic model on intensive tilapia pond culture. The model is used to simulate the impacts of climate, technical and/or financial factors on...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session B2: Implementing the Landing Obligation in the Reformed CFP - Practical Challenges and Effects on Fishing Businesses - 2016 Story...
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...
After 2008, in the post-war context of northern Sri Lanka, the Blue swimming crab (BSC), Portunus pelagicus, fishery is U68blooming and becoming an export-oriented industry. Presently the major concern of BSC industry is how long this resource could sustainably utilized, if fishery continuous with current increasing exploitation rates. Hence, present...
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.
A great number of public/private founded researches have analyzed the causal relationship among different potential drivers for prices, such as demand and supply growth, changes in prices of raw materials and other inputs as well as the policy about stocking. Some analysts suggest that recent price developments are mainly explicable...
In front of new evolutions of purchasing behaviors, the seafood marketing has to adapt itself by integrating more services into products, a better dramatization, an recourse to new advertising and promotional instruments … The supply not only has to adapt itself to the situational constraints of shoppers, but rethink its...
We present a positive mathematical programming model (PMP) for Hawaii's longline fishing fleet with the aim of examining the outcome of specific fishery policies. This model expands an earlier model which developed a generalized adaptation of the PMP framework to study fisheries. The current model provides managers with a realistic...
Choices are often limited as the most popular alternatives reach capacity and sell out; thereafter, selection is over less preferred choices. In the context of nonmarket goods, willingness to pay (WTP) welfare measures provide an estimate of the value of characteristics – often calculated through the modeling of preferences using...
I first of all sketch a picture of the importance of fisheries to people and argue that our interactions with fish stocks, for the most part, are currently unsustainable. Next, I identify the provision of capacity-enhancing subsidies by governments or what has been described as ‘harmful' or ‘bad' subsidies in the...
The state of habitats is important for their productivity, including for stocks of commercial fish. Some fishing methods can damage habitat or give bycatch of species. Destructive fishing gear has sometimes been introduced without awareness of the direct negative impacts on habitat, and without realising the possible negative indirect impacts...
Fish products are among the most highly-traded commodities. The proportion of fish harvests that is internationally traded has steadily risen over time. As a result, trade has become a key driver of the dynamics of local fisheries, with a range of ecological, economic and social impacts. This paper reports empirical...
Economic drivers of change, such as changes in demand and fishing technology, are as important for the future state of fish stocks as factors influencing ecological processes (Quaas et al. 2016) . Fish and seafood (FaS) are among the most globalized commodities, and markets will continue to globalize in the...
This document provides an overview of a presentation held during the Industry and Policy Day at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The presentation was part of Session A4: Global Market: Connections and Prospective Opportunities. The session was chaired by Maarten Mens, and the presentation was given by...
This study analyzes the relationship between annual growth in the production of the major aquaculture countries and the quality of institutions in those countries over the last three decades (1984- 2013). Seventy-four aquaculture countries from five different regions - Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania - were selected for...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The title of the special session was: Gender Research as a New Frontier in Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics: In the Footsteps of Rosemary Firth. The session was organized by Meryl Williams.
Lack of adequate gender-specific data and statistics has given rise to stereotype assumption on the contributions of men and women in agricultural production; aquaculture inclusive. This consequently has negatively influenced policies and programs geared towards increased productivity. The study was therefore aimed to analyze the gender participation in aquaculture value...
Recently, Thai government has placed gender issues on agenda of its policies and has allocated budget for implementation of projects on gender. For fisheries sector, there are many fisheries development projects implemented under the National Fisheries Development Strategy. However, gender issues have not been considered in the project cycle due...
Women in general play a critical role in every aspect of the production process and value chain in small-scale fisheries. Their best known roles are however in processing and marketing of fish and fishery products. The fish sector (capture fisheries and aquaculture) is an important source of income and livelihoods...
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the introduction of New Zealand’s QMS. Over that time the system has evolved into a complex management system. Our fisheries management system is considered world-leading and scientific assessments show that overall our fisheries are sustainably managed and New Zealand is in a strong...