Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) abalone fishing in South Africa has grown to such an extent that the legal total allowable catch has been progressively reduced from 640 tons in 1995, to a proposed zero for 2008. We present research on the socio-economics of the IUU abalone fishery and the...
Outputs and inputs during 1994-2006 in the USA Northeast Multispecies (groundfish) fishery—including days fished for a group of 47 otter trawl vessels fishing out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA—were analyzed to test the hypothesis that restricting the annual days-at-sea (DAS) of individual fishing vessels increased Technical Efficiency (TE). The results...