It is recognized that small-scale fishing communities are grappled with an array of problems, including overfishing of fishing resources, lack of alternative sources of employment, rapid population growth,
displacement in coastal areas due to industrial development and tourism, pollution and environmental degradation etc.. Discussions on the issue of overfishing in...
Today fish is the most traded food commodity in the World. This situation is not without generating potential issues. On the one hand, fish trade is said to support economic growth processes in developing
countries by providing an important source of cash revenue. On the other hand, fish trade is...
Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) supports a valuable commercial fishery along the Pacific coast of North America. In recent decades the fishery has intensified significantly, with most crab landed during the first six weeks of the seven-month season. Management approaches to slow this intensifying and dangerous race have been elusive. This...
Between 1996 and 2000, the Federal Government of Canada reduced the number of salmon fishing licences in British Columbia by 50%, from a total of 4416 to the current 2221 licences, through voluntary “licence retirement”. The total cost of this program was $273.5 million over 5 years. The purpose of...
In the UK, individual quotas are imposed on the demersal whitefish trawl fleet. Many of the key whitefish stocks are at historically low levels, and there is pressure on the industry to adjust to remove the current excess capacity. Adjustment in the fishery is likely to favour vessels that are...
A behavioral study on the entry, stay and exit decisions of the fishers in Hawaii's longline fishery was undertaken in a random utility framework by applying the multinomial logit (unordered) model. Pooled annual cross-sectional and time-series (1991-98) data were used. The empirical results confirm that the entry, stay, and exit...
The auction system is rather rare in the world fisheries. During this three-year period, 2001-2003, fish quotas in the RFE and the North (Barents Sea) were auctioned off, with the by far largest volumes in the RFE. The main purpose of auctioning quotas for fish and marine invertebrates was to...
The fishing capacity issue has lately received considerable global attention. The application of an embracing structural policy in the European Union (EU) during the 1980s and 90s has indicated the desire of fisheries managers and administrators to rebalance the level of capacity of fishing fleets with resource availability. A previous...
This paper is intended to examine and discuss in what way output control, one of the fisheries management measures, is effective in reducing over-capacity, and can become an effective means towards sustainable management of living marine resources. It was made clear theoretically and empirically that output control is applicable as...
Fisheries management is a problematic issue for many states. It is complex and among its constituents governmental policy plays a decisive role. Fisheries management is a big political issue for Russia. Russian fishing industry is in a disastrous state. The Russian government speaks a lot about food security and develops...