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  • Invest in Fish South West: Exploring Partnership in a Multi-Stakeholder Fisheries Project in the UK

    Creator:
    Squires, Heather
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    The increasing move to citizen participation in policy formulation is being witnessed in European fisheries. The emergence of the Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) and other processes via the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is sparking hope and interest in more regionally relevant, holistic, and hopefully workable fisheries management measures. In...
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    holistic vision that people from the full range of interest groups can support, comprising the social

  • Fishing for a Purpose: New Zealand's Objectives-Based Fisheries Plans

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    Leslie, Stefan
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    New Zealand manages commercial access and allocation through the market-based Quota Management System (QMS). However, the QMS alone is currently insufficient to address several fisheries issues. New Zealand is now developing Objectives-Based Fisheries Management (OBFM) to complement the QMS along two dimensions. First, to improve fisheries outcomes, such as reduced...
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    ) under the Act since 1999. So why did the Minister of Fisheries, acting on advice from the Ministry

  • Foreign Direct Investment in the OECD Fisheries Sector

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    Cox, Anthony
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    Restrictions on flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in most sectors of OECD countries have been significantly reduced in recent years. In contrast, FDI in the fish harvesting sectors of OECD countries is still heavily restricted through a range of measures including outright bans on FDI, maximum allowable levels of...
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    harvesting sectors of OECD countries is still heavily restricted through a range of measures including

  • Do Fishery Infrastructure Subsidies Need to be Disciplined to Protect Sustainability?

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    McIlgorm, Alistair, Bartholomew, Mathew, and Pearman, Alison
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    At the 2001 WTO Ministerial Conference in Doha, World Trade Ministers called for improved disciplines on fisheries subsidies, given the perceived impact of these subsidies in contributing to overfishing, overcapacity and other trade distortions. Subsequent deliberations have sought to determine which fisheries subsidies should be disciplined under the WTO framework....
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    fisheries infrastructure subsidies and briefly presents a range of views on how nations look at fishery

  • The Human Side of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management: Preliminary Results of an FAO Expert Consultation

    Creator:
    De Young, Cassandra
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    The concept of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management (EAF) is reaching a point of general acceptance by those involved in fisheries. There is also growing agreement that fisheries management must incorporate the complicated and often not-well-understood links between human activities and the environment. As a primary goal of an...
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    . Recognizing the wide range of interpretations of the approach, the FAO proposed the following definition

  • The Political Economy of Fisheries Policy Reform: A Review of Key Issues

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    Cox, Anthony
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    Why are fisheries policies so hard to reform? While there are many examples of successful policy reform in the sector, these tend to be restricted to a few countries or individual fisheries. There remains significant scope for further reform to address pressing economic, environmental and social issues in the sector....
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    INFLUENCING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY REFORM From a theoretical perspective, there is a wide range of

  • Fisheries Experts Unveiled: Different Types and When to Use Them

    Creator:
    Williams, Meryl
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    The use and management of fish supplies, fish stocks and those who work in fishing and related businesses needs to be governed by good policies and actions, based as far as possible on good research-based advice and other expert information. Fisheries policy makers and managers work in a milieu that...
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    policy. On this Policy Day of IIFET 2006, I have great pleasure building on the excellent keynote

  • Testing the Cost Effectiveness of Manual Removal Strategies for the Containment of Invasive Lionfish Stocks in a Caribbean Reef

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    Valderrama, Diego and Fields, Kathryn Ann H.
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    Two species of the Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois miles and P. volitans) have rapidly expanded throughout the Gulf of Mexico, mid- and south Atlantic and the Caribbean following their introduction to Florida coastal waters during the mid-1980s through releases from marine aquaria. There is overwhelming scientific agreement on the threats that...
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    • Variable costs per ha (boat rental, fuel, crew): $5,500 ($550/day). • These removal programs would

  • Impact of the Days-at-Sea Restrictions on the Profitability of North Sea Trawlers: A Restricted Profit Function Approach

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    Pascoe, Sean
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    Days at sea restrictions were introduced in 2003 as part of the cod recovery strategy in the North Sea. The impact on the profitability of the fleet of the effort controls, however, is not immediately discernable, as the fishery was also subject to changes in costs, prices and stock conditions....
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    , 2003). In response, a multi-faceted stock recovery programme has been proposed that includes a range

  • Developing Case Studies for Fishery Management Training

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    Jodice, Laura and Brown, Lew G.
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    The top business management educators consider case teaching to be a highly effective means for building critical decision-making skills in future managers. Although this method holds significant potential, it is not commonly used in fisheries management education and training. The Training Mangers for 21st Century Fisheries Initiative has identified development...
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    decision-focused, field- researched cases. The primary goal was to develop greater pedagogical