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...
Global Trends: Foreign and transnational ownership (& ownership interests), Complex structures: vertical integration, flags of convenience, joint ventures, etc., Concentration: a handful of corporations controlling global fisheries (Österblom et al. 2015,Carmine et al. 2020). Why Regulate?: Risk of monopolies and market failure, Governance of corporations (i.e., compliance, enforcement), Who captures...
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...
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...
Local users may invest in managing common pool resources, thereby promoting social and ecological resilience. Institutional or economic limits on access are regarded as essential preconditions for incentivizing local investments, but we show here that investment incentives can exist even under open access. We modeled a recreational harvest fishery in...
In the past two decades resource economists have made great headway in understanding spatial-dynamic processes in resource exploitation and management. However, despite this progress, there remain large gaps in understanding the spatialdynamics of recreational resources. Here we first develop a general bioeconomic model of a renewable recreational resource use, under...
Marine recreational fishing (MRF) is a leisure activity and a cultural ecosystem service that, beyond the welfare obtained by its practitioners, has an interesting potential to boost maritime economies. However, it does not represent a formal sector on the national accounts and, in Europe, it lacks a systematic and common...
First-sale prices of fish respond to both local and global drivers, and artisanal fishermen are often considered as price-acceptors due to their limited capacity to influence them, a key issue for their survival and value added creation. However, in artisanal fisheries, the frequent lack of data hinders us from understanding...
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SSFs → Own characteristics that often affect prices. First‐sale prices are key for the sustainability of SSF,often price‐acceptors → influence of supra‐local factors (exports, imports, value‐chain forces) and industrial fisheries. Certain local/regional SSF management measures also aim to have effects on this price: fisheries regulation, commercial strategies, labelling, etc....
The Cíes Islands show an extremely rich biodiversity, making them the core element of Galicia’s Atlantic Islands, and are an extremely attractive area for the development of small-scale fishing, as well as for tourism and recreational activities, which could constitute a priori a potential risk insofar as maintaining the natural...
Context and objective: Beyond leisure and food (sea ES) → MRF boosts maritime economies, but not a formal industry in our economic accounts. EU DCF → increasing focus on MRF, to be considered in commercial fisheries management decisions (CFP). Limitations of traditional approaches (aggregated expenditures,non‐market microeconomics) to assess MRF economic...
Study Objectives: IPHC socioeconomic study was a direct response to the Commission’s “desire for more comprehensive economic information to support the overall management of the Pacific halibut resource in fulfillment of its mandate”, Commission’s objective is to develop stocks of Pacific halibut that permit “optimum yield from the fishery and...
In the absence of formal insurance, fishers often ”self-insure” against financial risk due to environmental and economic factors by adjusting fishing activities over species, space, and time. This diversification can be effective (e.g., Kasperski and Holland, 2013; Cline, Schindler, and Hilborn, 2017; Sethi, Dalton, and Hilborn, 2012; Fuller et al.,...
The EU framework for the collection and management of fisheries data (EU Reg. 1004/2017) requires estimates of four variables related to capital value and capital cost of fishing fleets, i.e. Consumption of fixed capital, Value of physical capital, Value of quota and other fishing rights, Investments in tangible assets. The...