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...
This paper explores the reasons why the ties between harvesting and processing have been severed in the
Icelandic fisheries in recent decades, and traces the role played by better transport, the emergence of
domestic wet-fish markets, and the introduction of freezing trawlers, as well as other factors in this
development....
About 8000 fishers are operating today in the Lake Nasser’s fishery (Egypt) and the annual official landing varies between 12,000 and 15,000 tons. Despite this relatively modest importance, the Egyptian authority decided to embark in a reform of the Lake Nasser fishery in the early 2000s. The objective of the...