This collection houses the proceedings of the 20th biennial conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET), entitled Managing a Changing Environment. The conference took place at Auditorio Mar de Vigo in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, from 18-22 July 2022. Conference organizers were M. Dolores Garza-Gil (University of...
Region policy instruments that transfer funds between jurisdictions are popular tools for mitigating spatial economic disparities. Given the regional aspect of fishing activity, these policy tools often benefit fisheries firms. In this paper, I study the effect of the regional policy area in Norway- a geographical area that is, among...
The small-scale coastal fisheries of Virginia account for a significant portion of the state’s total annual landings and employ thousands of individuals. Despite the value of these fisheries, the number of commercial licenses sold has declined more than 15% since 1994. Declines are attributed to various factors, but indicate potential...
This is an empirical analysis of the Malindi Ungwana Bay prawn fishery in the coast of Kenya. A resource allocation problem is at the heart of the conflict between artisanal fishers and commercial trawlers exploiting the prawn fishery in the bay. The Prawn Fishery Management plan by the government has...
The small-scale coastal fisheries of Virginia account for a significant portion of the state’s total annual landings and employ thousands of individuals. Despite the value of these fisheries, the number of commercial licenses sold has declined more than 15% since 1994. Declines are attributed to various factors, but indicate potential...
Bermeo is a small town in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, cradle of a purse seiner of undisputed global relevance. Since the time of the Romans, it was recognized for its port, which led it to be one of the first three villages that were founded in the former...
Why did I write a novel? Fisheries operate in complex adaptive systems. A novel can better illustrate the dominant role of system complexity in sector governance. A book may last longer than a paper. I like writing a story, even if it is an illusion within reality.
This paper identifies the effect of Mauritian regulation changes on EU industrial vessels’ fishing activities and their implications for food security. The rich resources of Mauritanian waters have historically been utilized by large foreign trawlers, creating small ripple effects and jobs in Mauritania. However, in 2012, Mauritanian authorities introduced new...
Low-value fish/ fishery by-products are potential economic resources for developing animal feeds. Accordingly, fish protein hydrolyzed technology is an excellent way to provide protein sources for animal nutrition. However, the nutritional quality and applying this new feed supplement are severely related to the production stages and next characteristics of agricultural...
Myctophid/lanternfish is one of the major fish stocks in the Oman Sea. The commercial utilization of lanternfish in the Persian side of the Oman Sea began in 2007. The vessels catching the lanternfish have not been specifically designed and equipped for this fishing operation. In addition, the lack of purposeful...
The European Union has set 2021 as the deadline for having a marine spatial plan in place for all its members. Despite the substantial literature analysing the last four decades of MSP implementation worldwide, the quantification of its economic effects remains at early stages. This presentation presents a methodological approach...
The European Union, under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, implement the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD). This programme is designed to address the main challenges faced in the fisheries areas by proposing and testing new solutions by the coastal population. In this sense, Spain plays a key role due to...
Iceland adopted an ITQ system for all of its fisheries more than three decades ago. The system has worked well in increasing the economic performance of the fisheries and, at least seemingly, the enforcement of the TACs. The Fisheries Directorate (FD) is aware of the potential problem of discards and...
Over recent decades, the EU aquaculture sector has been implementing actions towards the minimization of waste as a strategy for increasing the circular attributes of the management system. In this context, it is relevant to develop methodologies to quantify and assess the circularity that will ultimately be achieved by new...
Artificial reefs (AR) were created not only to protect sea bottoms (Lee et al., 2018) and enhance biodiversity namely by stimulating the enhancement of fish stocks (Pioch et al., 2020), but also to attract diving tourism (Shani et al., 2012) or sport fishing enthusiasts (Radonski et al., 2018). In order...
In this paper, we analyze how public monitoring and enforcement (M\&E) efforts affect the success of a collective property right. We develop a bioeconomic model to generate several theoretical predictions, which we test empirically by assembling and analyzing novel data on public patrolling and fishing activity in the Chilean abalone...
Artificial reefs (AR) were created not only to enhance biodiversity (namely by stimulating the increase of fish stocks), but also to attract diving tourism or sport fishing enthusiasts. Industry 4.0 tools – e.g., mobile technologies and cloud computing – can be used for AR monitoring purposes and can serve as...
Policy makers must ensure that regulatory frameworks contribute to the maintenance of resilient marine ecosystems. Recreational fishers add additional pressure on worldwide fish stocks to that exerted by commercial fishing, especially in coastal areas. Fishing tourism have an increasingly stronger presence in areas with growing numbers of permanent residents. Marine...
There is no doubt that policy makers must ensure that the different regulation frameworks contribute to the maintenance of resilient ecosystems that sustain healthy resources for commercial fishers, contributing to the economies that depend on their activity and supply markets with healthy products. However, marine recreational fishing also contributes significantly...