Globalisation continues to impact the fisheries sector, aided by international governance frameworks in fisheries production and trade. Within these frameworks, tensions exist between trade facilitating measures and trade restricting measures. For example, UNCLOS extended Exclusive Economic Zones to 200 miles, resulting in a significant increase in volume and trade in...
This paper provides summaries of presentations at a special session of IIFET 2012 that explored the potential value of a ‘wellbeing’ approach in small-scale fisheries, drawing on insights from the Governing Small-Scale Fisheries for Wellbeing and Resilience project. The research aimed to apply wellbeing concepts to both better understand fishery...
Recent reports of fishery collapse paint a gloomy picture of the ocean's future; perhaps 100% of fisheries from the world's large marine ecosystems (LMEs) will be collapsed in just 40 years. While poor fisheries governance is now widely regarded as the cause, bioeconomic theory and anecdotal evidence suggest that rights-based...
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on salmon fishery governance in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest U.S. Here the physical and ecological effects of climate change are expected to be significant and to include alterations in freshwater and marine aquatic habitat that will affect the...
Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) abalone fishing in South Africa has grown to such an extent that the legal total allowable catch has been progressively reduced from 640 tons in 1995, to a proposed zero for 2008. We present research on the socio-economics of the IUU abalone fishery and the...
The linefish sector is one of the 10 commercial fisheries in Namibia. This sector is made up of two subsectors: commercial right holders and angling. The angling subsector is further divided into two types of fishing activities; subsistence angling which serve as a source of food supply and recreational angling...
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Fishery in NamibiaFishery in Namibia
BY: Mike Nghipunya
Economist
Ministry of
The linefish sector is one of the 10 commercial fisheries in Namibia. This sector is made up of two subsectors: commercial right holders and angling. The angling subsector is further divided into two types of fishing activities; subsistence angling which serve as a source of food supply and recreational angling...
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The Economics of Recreational Fishery in
Namibia
Mike Nghipunya
Skipjack migrates from the equatorial region to the high latitude. Skipjack fishery is mainly exercised by the purse seine vessels. The stock evaluation of the skipjack is plentiful. However, in 2009, the catch of the Japanese offshore skipjack fishery declined. WCPFC Scientific Committee sixth regular session summary report mentioned that...
Skipjack migrates from the equatorial region to the high latitude. Skipjack fishery is mainly exercised by the purse seine vessels. The stock evaluation of the skipjack is plentiful. However, in 2009, the catch of the Japanese offshore skipjack fishery declined. WCPFC Scientific Committee sixth regular session summary report mentioned that...
In the Pacific Ocean, the total catch of skipjack tuna has been increasing rapidly. Then, eight of Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian countries (PNA countries) have concluded a cooperative management of tuna fisheries. Although those countries do not catch a large amount by themselves, the main migrating area is included in...
In order to survive and prosper fishing companies have to balance the need for continuity and change. Investment strategy is a good indicator on the direction companies are headed in terms of capacity, onboard production, and the financial risks they are willing to take. However, the success of an investment...
New Zealand has recently implemented major changes to its Fisheries management regimes including strengthening the quota based property right, devolving the delivery of quota registry services to the industry and developing new computer systems to support industry and government requirements. The success of these changes is due to a number...
A model is described that characterizes the effect of costly information gathering, imperfect compliance, and costly monitoring, on the efficacy of central vs. local governance. The system considered is a common pool resource (CPR) with metapopulation structure, with each substock exploited by a different community. In the case of central...
About 8000 fishers are operating today in the Lake Nasser’s fishery (Egypt) and the annual official landing varies between 12,000 and 15,000 tons. Despite this relatively modest importance, the Egyptian authority decided to embark in a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s. The objective of the...
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...
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Potential for Co-Management: a case
study of Hawaii’s longline fishery
Michele Barnes-Mauthe*, Shawn
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...
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The Social Networks of Hawaii’s Longline Fishery – a
A local fisheries management model employing short-term fisheries closures for rapidly growing species is proliferating across coastal east Africa and Indian Ocean islands. Aiming to improve management and boost incomes, NGOs, international finance institutions, and government agencies are promoting the technique in artisanal fishing communities. In southwest Madagascar alone, over...
In most decision making involving natural resources, the achievements of the policy (e.g., better ecosystem) are rather difficult to measure in monetary units. To overcome this problem the paper develops a modified Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) to include these intangible benefits in intertemporal natural resource problems. The proposed CEA framework is...
Today, decentralization and democratic participation are presented as necessary conditions to achieve poverty alleviation and ensure the sustainable use of our diminishing natural resources. In small-scale
fisheries, similar ideas predominate and decentralization has become the new management paradigm through the concepts of community-based and co-management. In this paper, we present...
Social networks and social capital can facilitate or constrain collaborative arrangements which can enhance resource governance and adaptability in complex social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Yet, the impact of ethnic diversity among resource users on social network capital in the context of resource governance has not been previously examined. To...
Fisheries management is more of human management than fish management. This is evidenced by the many fishing regulation that are developed world-wide and imposed on the fishers who harvest the fish resources. A number of fisheries management regimes have been devised and implemented to sustainably manage the world fisheries but...
For three years, a multidisciplinary group of researchers in social sciences, has analysed the Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of fisheries management in Europe. In the framework of this ELSA Pêche programme funded under the ELSA line of the FAIR research programme of the European Commission (DG XII, Research), a...
Since the 1990s Pacific island countries have been host to a plethora of projects to improve the management of coastal marine environments. Some of these have been about strengthening Indigenous and community-based forms of resource management. Some have been about building government capacity and strengthening legislative frameworks. Marine Protected Areas...
This paper discusses the persistency of one of today’s major subsidy schemes in Norwegian fisheries: exemption from fuel taxes in the fishing fleet. The reimbursement scheme stems from the late 1980s, and has been persistent since, under different governments. Here we provide the background for this support and discuss it’s...
The Australian coral reef fin-fish fishery (CRFFF) on the Great Barrier Reef has been managed under ITQs since 2004. A large number of different reef species (>155) are covered by the management plan, but the primary species in terms of value and volume landed are coral trout and red throat...
The Icelandic ITQ system has been under development since the early 1980s. Rights were initially grandfathered. Rights have been priced and traded and put up as collateral against loans. Quota values have thus affected the balance sheet of Icelandic fishing firms in a fundamental way. The aim of this paper...
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The Icelandic ITQ system has been under development since the early 1980s. Rights were initially grandfathered. Rights have been priced and traded and put up as collateral against loans. Quota values have thus affected the balance sheet of Icelandic fishing firms in a fundamental way. The aim of this paper...
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month-to-month average of the most important prices related to the
cod-fishery. Two types of port-side
A major problem facing the Seychelles is the decline in the quality and the value of marine protected areas (MPAs). Economic valuation can help guide policy makers to understand the value of marine resources and the cost of neglecting MPAs by expressing the value of their goods and services in...
A major problem facing the Seychelles is the decline in the quality and the value of marine protected areas (MPAs). Economic valuation can help guide policy makers to understand the value of marine resources and the cost of neglecting MPAs by expressing the value of their goods and services in...
A major problem facing the Seychelles is the decline in the quality and the value of marine protected areas (MPAs). Economic valuation can help guide policy makers to understand the value of marine resources and the cost of neglecting MPAs by expressing the value of their goods and services in...
The state of the world at the beginning of 21 century is terribly bad from all points of views such as environment, food supply, resources, economy and security essential for human survival. Our civilization based on technological development and mass consumption has been using up all resources on land and...