The optimal management of the European hake fishery (southern stock) is analysed. Since
the activity of the fleets has different impacts on marine resource in this fishery, depending
on the selectivity of their gears, the degree of selectivity is included in the analysis.
Likewise the changes in the selectivity of...
Setting aside the traditional simplistic “tragedy of the commons” notion, fisheries crises observed in the Northern Atlantic may be seen as the result of “mismatches” in the decision making process. The collapse of two fisheries, Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in Canada and European Hake (Merluccius merluccius) in Europe, illustrate the...