Why are fisheries policies so hard to reform? While there are many examples of successful policy reform in the sector, these tend to be restricted to a few countries or individual fisheries. There remains significant scope for further reform to address pressing economic, environmental and social issues in the sector....
The paper analyzes the recent behavior of the Peruvian Anchoveta Sector, the largest single stock fishery in the world. It describes the different phases of boom and contraction that it has undergone since the 1960s, and how the lack of adequate regulation allowed –and even fostered– over-investment in the sector...
This work analyses empirically the exploitation dynamics from 1997 to 2003, of the most important
segment of the Spanish fishing fleet operating in the EU waters, also known as “300 fleet”. The aim of the
analysis is exploring the economic consequences of the coming into force of the new approaches...