Artisanal or small scale inshore fisheries are one of the economic sub sectors of the economy and make valuable economic contribution to the coastal communities of Tanzania. It provides rich protein food, employment, income thus contribute to their livelihood. The fishery also contributes significantly to foreign earnings and revenue. Small-scale...
Artisanal or small scale inshore fisheries are one of the economic sub sectors of the economy and make valuable economic contribution to the coastal communities of Tanzania. It provides rich protein food, employment, income thus contribute to their livelihood. The fishery also contributes significantly to foreign earnings and revenue. Small-scale...
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Artisanal or small scale inshore fisheries are one of the economic sub sectors of the economy and make valuable economic contribution to the coastal communities of Tanzania. It provides rich protein food, employment, income thus contribute to their livelihood. The fishery also contributes significantly to foreign earnings and revenue. Small-scale...
This paper is a compilation of several themes that addresses how Te Arawa iwi Trusts are utilising kaitiakitanga; traditional methods, practices and customs to manage freshwater environments and freshwater fisheries. Te Arawa is a central north island indigenous tribe of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Several deeds of settlement have been signed with...
In 1986, New Zealand implemented the world’s first comprehensive individual transferable quota management system for fisheries, designed to ensure sustainable use of fish resources by restricting take levels. Today, fewer people are fishing less frequently, often using with more efficient capture technologies. Drawing on ethnographic research with Maori fishing communities...
In 1995 North Sea herring was estimated to have declined from previous high of around 1.5 million to 400,000 tonnes, the point at which significant reduction in recruitment had previously been observed. The response to this was to cut the fishery by reducing the human consumption TAC by 50% and...
A Seafood Environmental Management Systems manual (SEMS) has been developed by Bord Iascaigh
Mhara (The Irish Sea Fisheries Board) in conjunction with the Irish fishing industry to encourage
fishermen to adopt an environmentally conscious, responsible and compliant approach to their business.
The documented risk-based SEMS approach developed is essentially a...
Worldwide, the scientific community and international organisations have
gradually agreed on the need for an ecosystem-based approach to fishery
management. However, the practical implementation of such an approach
faces huge problems, especially in developing countries where current
fishery management systems are generally weak.
One way to improve a fishery management...
Since the seventies, the Malagasy fishery sector management has been
oriented by three paradigms: development, rationalization (looking for
economic efficiency) and attempts of sustainable development (to reconcile
economic, social and conservation goals). The institutional and legal frame
of the marine sector has been characterized by many transformations linked
to the...
In the mid-90s the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation
(CSIRO) funded a social science (economics) research trip to the Gulf of
Carpentaria. The objective of the trip was to observe and model
commercial fishing patterns in the NPF, and develop an all encompassing
model for describing fleet dynamics in the...
Management of fisheries and aquaculture is an issue that has received widespread attention in
the literature. The particular concern is the relationship among fishermen, fish farmers,
management institution and fish resources. This relationship is very important for sustainable
development of sea resources in Iran. Overfishing, uncertainty in fish availability and...
Vietnam is the peninsular country and lying in the area of monsoon tropical climate therefore has very diversify and abundant and valuable fish resources. Since long time ago the fisheries resources in natural water bodies (as in dams, rivers, lake, canals, sea) have been concerned as common property (and is...
The artificial reef of Vilamoura (ARV) deployed between 1998 and 2001 is situated off the fishing community of Quarteira and the tourism resorts of Vilamoura (Southern Portugal). The reef extends for approximately over 4,000 m long and 1,400 m wide at a depth ranging from 20 to 40 m below...
The official catch records generally are carried out in the landing operations. There three categories of fishing that are not included in landings; illegal, unreported and unregulated catch (IUU) and are considered like lack of information. It is necessary, to consider these categories of fishing to know the true impact...
Prior to the introduction of the modern management regime, the concept of capacity constituted no other reference than the technical capacity of a given fishing vessel. However, after closing the commons and the introduction of a an heavily institutionalized management regime, the fisheries sector have been transfomed to complex web...
This paper presents an analysis of the collapse of the European anchovy fishery (engraulis) in the Bay of Biscay. The analysis shows that this crisis is a clear expression of general troubles facing the CFP and its an applied case of deliberations that are analysed in the Green Paper. In...
The White paper on European Governance suggests enhanced participation and transparency to improve policies, regulations and outcomes. This paper identifies and addresses difficulties and constraints associated with increasing legitimacy through participation using the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) as an example. The Green paper leading to the reform of the CFP...
The Chiloe archipelago (Patagonia, Chile) economy lies upon agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture. The marine activities were recently affected by an epidemic crisis in salmon farming and a market crisis for most of the seafood products, including seaweeds. Two Marine Reserves (Putemun and Pullinque) in this island were also badly impacted...
Veracruz, México is the most productive fishing state of the Gulf of México. It has a long coastline extending from north to south for about 745 km. This paper incorporates spatial analysis to characterize the fishing production zones and the factors affecting such production along the coast of Veracruz, including...
The human interference and its impact on coastal zones have been recognized worldwide. Kerala, the Southern State of India with 560-km. coastline, has a population of 3,18,38,619 and the total area available is only 38238 Sq. km. About 2/3rd of the population of the Kerala state is settled in the...
Eritreas Coastal Marine and Island area covers more than 121,000km2, include over 350 offshore islands and 1,350km of coastline (18% of the Red Sea continental coastline) not including the islands. The total coastal mainland population is 73,000, and only ten out of all the islands are inhabited with a total...
Modern fisheries management is strongly based on ecosystem theory. Ecosystem management involves direct manipulation of the habitat and population as well as human activity in order to optimize sustainable returns to humans. The ecosystems approach is widely viewed as a new concept in management of fisheries and aquaculture. Ecosystems based...
Ecosystems are one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world, with important commercial and valuable fish stocks. However, overfishing, IUU activities, discards, habitat destruction and alteration of the biogeochemical conditions of the ecosystem combined with an increase in fish demand continue to drive fisheries to an alarming situation....
The need for management of the marine ecosystem using a broad perspective has been recommended under a variety of names. This paper uses the term Ecosystem Management, which is seen as a convergence between the ecological idea of an organisational hierarchy and the idea of strategic planning with a planning...
The main objectives assigned to ecosystemic indices are to fuel the debate on the best ways to reduce the impact of global warming. Fishing activities are also concerned with the debate. The assessments carried out about fish products show that the use of fuel in the fishing stage has the...
Among scientists & fishermen: flagship relationships of a science/society
contract. What we can learn from the French public dialogue Grenelle de la
mer and how multi-agent simulations can be useful.
As a consequence of the French dialogue process entitled Grenelle de
l'environnement, Non-governmental organization access to public scientific
expertise and...
Marine conservation measures such as moratoriums challenge the economics of fisheries. Efficiency of moratoriums depends on the acceptation by fisheries of such conservation measures. If the measure is unaccepted by fisheries the moratorium is not respected which leads the stock to extinction. The purpose of this article is to identify...
A lot of efforts through different projects have been made to establish comanagement
mechanisms to manage small scale fishery in Sri Lanka.
Nevertheless, many of such attempts have by now proved to be futile
endeavors. More often than not, such attempts to establish co-management
mechanisms in small scale fishery in...
The study is a modest attempt of assessing community-based management
of inland fisheries resources in Bangladesh to establishing access right to
the poor fishing communities. Co-management initiatives undertaken by
different institutes have established effective networking among
Community Based Organizations (CBOs). The initiatives also provided
fisheries management knowledge and created access...
This paper is based on a review and assessment of lessons from three
projects on fisheries co-management in Bangladesh: i) Community-based
fisheries management (CBFM), ii) Management of aquatic ecosystems
through community husbandry (MACH), and iii) Fourth Fisheries Project
(FFP). These co-management initiatives established 191 Community Based
Organizations (CBOs) in 179...
In Japan, common fishery rights are granted by prefectural governor only to local fisheries cooperative associations (FCAs). Coastal resources like abalones are utilized by local fishers as members of FCAs. Fishery rights are deemed to be real rights and any person encroaching upon this right is subject to fine. Therefore,...
Thousands of small man-made water reservoirs (water bodies with water surface
from five to some hundreds ha) have been developed in mountainous regions for water
supplying or hydroelectricity purpose, these areas are usually residence of poor,
backward minority groups which often lacks of food supplying resources. Development of
fisheries (both...
Certaines populations marines, de par leur capacité à réaliser des déplacements de grande envergure, marquent leur distribution spatiale d'une forte variabilité; Celle ci s'inscrit souvent dans un cycle saisonnier avec une reproductibilité interannuelle. Ces déplacements sont liés soit à une migration saisonnière entre plusieurs aires, soit à une concentration saisonnière...
Small-scale fisheries make key contributions to food security, sustainable livelihoods and poverty reduction, yet to date the economic value of small-scale fisheries has been poorly quantified. In this study, we take a novel approach by characterizing post-landing trends of small-scale fisheries resources and estimating their total economic value, including both...
The main instrument used in fishery management is the total allowable catch (TAC). Fishery management often fails because TACs are set too high and do not sufficiently restrict fisheries. The question we address in this paper is why do decision makers choose inefficiently high TACs? Our approach is to model...
Managed fisheries are frequently structured on a sector by sector basis with each sector defined by the type of user or use, for example commercial, recreational and indigenous sectors. Management arrangements for a sector, however, may not be formally integrated with those for other sectors. Consequent competition between sectors for...
The introduction of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) in the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery significantly impacted the way the commercial fleet operated. As result of the added flexibility afforded by the IFQ program, vessels began taking fewer but longer trips. They also began diversifying the composition of their catch....
This paper illustrates a case study to identify problems and actions to build the basis for an integrated fishery management plan, considering stakeholders participation. The application was made on the southern complex multispecies groundfish fishery, where operate various scales of production under a right-based fishing system. A multimethological approach (Mingers,...
In developing countries the framework for institutional engagement in small-scale fishing communities needs to consider the regional, social, economic and environmental complexities of informal resource-based economies. The combination of socio-economic trajectory of artisanal fisherfolks, their relationship with the environment, the economic pressures and the public policy framework, which often regarded...
Ben Tre, located on the Tien Delta Triangle--with a coastline of 65 km and the 20,000 km2
Exclusive Economic Zone--is one of the Mekong Delta’s 13 provinces. Given both its vast
access to coastline and the EEZ, fisheries is one of the Ben Tre’s key economic sectors. This
study specifies...
Combinations of 7 remarkably similar factors have led to the (partial)
failure of recent efforts to address five global or national crises. The paper
analyzes the global financial crisis, climate change, the US health care
crisis, the blue fin tuna collapse in the Atlantic Ocean and the collapse of
fish...
A comparative multi-fleet rationale of socioeconomic indicators is described aiming a
potential incorporation into fishery management advice at an ecosystem scale. A set of
performance indicators, based on a survey of different industrial fishing fleets in São
Paulo (SE Brazil) which investigated investment, fixed, effort, labour and sailingrelated
costs and...
Many developed nations have accessed the diverse benefits of recreational fisheries in their this is not yet so in developing countries, this study explored the viability of recreational fisheries in two Nigerian Lakes.
Biological resources were sampled for twelve (12) months on Lakes Asejire and Oyan all in the forest...
The clam, Galatea paradoxa has for decades been an important source of protein to the riparian communities of the lower Volta River and provides employment to about 2000 people, especially women. The fishing grounds have dwindled from 100 km from the pre-dam era to a narrow stretch of 10 km...
Before 1991, the Department of Fisheries was the sole formal fisheries management authority in Sierra Leone. This authority's management of the fisheries resulted, however, in less than 10% of the estimated annual resource rent accruing to government and in increasing the importance of resource over-exploitation. To improve stock conservation and...
Two of the main problems in fisheries management are over-fishing and
over-capacity driven by the production externality inherent in common
property resource use. Quotas have been introduced to cap total catches,
and regulations such as input restrictions and limited entry have been used
to reduce the capacity problem. Economists generally...
In ecosystem-based fishery management, the ecosystem comprises the
natural sub-system and also human components, including user groups,
institutions and the processes of management. Regional Fishery
Management Organizations (RFMOs), particularly those designed to
manage tunas, were not established with an ecosystem view of the pelagic
environment. However, tuna RFMOs have evolved...
The coastal ecosystem of the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) has been overfished and received a high level of
combined pollution in the past decades. The fisheries stock assessments have shown a declining
population and have led to a number of management measures, including fishing moratorium. This study
evaluated the effect...
The ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) challenges the sustainable
management of resources at an ecosystem level facing human well-being
and environmental health. Here we describe how economic analyses may
fill important knowledge gaps for such a challenge when regarding a
broader multispecies context, e.g. tracking signals of change in ecosystem...
Every fish species is part of a complex ecosystem which competes with
other species for resources. Likewise, the harvesting of fish species often
involves technological interactions which results in catching multiple
species as well as temporal interactions between species as fishermen
allocate their effort across multiple fisheries over the course...