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...
New Zealand’s fisheries legislation generally sets out a centralised and prescriptive management framework, predominantly based on annual decisions on both management measures and service delivery. A recent amendment provides for the Minister of Fisheries to approve fisheries plans, but does not specify what needs to be included in a plan...
New Zealand’s quota management system, the QMS, has for years been considered as one of the most successful rights-based fisheries management system in the world. Although the hard evidence is at best patchy, New Zealand’s fishing industry is performing well ahead of most competitors, both in economic, biological and administrative...
The Working Group on Fisheries Systems of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has identified the production and the use of knowledge in policy and management decision-making as one of the critical processes to be analyzed in the evaluation of the performance of fisheries systems. Many...