Conference Venue: Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC), Scotland, UK
Conference Organizers: Hazel Curtis, Seafish, and Jimmy Young, emeritus, University of Stirling
The International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade (IIFET) is a global organization consisting of 700 members from over 65 countries around the world, advancing the productive use of economic theory and analysis to answer critical questions surrounding the sustainable use of marine resources and to ensure future livelihoods of those who produce food from the sea.
IIFET 2016 Scotland was our 18th biennial conference held since the founding of the organization in 1982. 403 professionals from academia, industry, government, international agencies, and the non-profit sector attended, from 47 countries.
Scientific Program
Major topics covered in 81 parallel oral presentations and 5 plenary sessions over the 3.5 day conference included:
Fisheries Management (Ecosystems based management, MPAs, international, national, models of co-operation, Eco-based management, MPAs & Hierarchies of fishing rights allocations, Adoption & adaptation of technical measures to improve resilience & profitability, bio-economic modelling, Modelling fishing choices and behavior, Adaptations to evolving governance)
Aquaculture (New Markets, Gender Issues, New species, Salmon, Parasite issues)
Seafood Markets (Innovative use of available, but ignored, market data, Seafood segmentation and positioning strategies, Logistics)
Processing (Managing value creation, the reformed CFP, supply chains)
Capture Fishing
The Bigger Picture
Consumption
Recreational Fishing
Special (pre-organized) Session topics included:
The economics of a discard ban policy
Gender Research as a New Frontier in Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics: In the Footsteps of Rosemary Firth
Game theory and fisheries
Unlocking the sustainable wealth potential of aquatic resources and ecosystems: Beyond traditional commercial fisheries management
SUCCESS: Reinforcing the competitiveness of the seafood sector
Economics of Bycatch
Measuring and managing risk-taking and safety in commercial fishing
Economics of Protected Resources
Fishing Cost Data Collection and Implications in Fisheries Management
Fisheries, Aquaculture and Global Food Security
Analyzing behavioral responses to regulation – what can be learned for management?
Creating shared value through stakeholders’ involvement to strengthen the seafood competitiveness
Present and Emerging Arctic Fisheries
Recognising and Assessing Social and Economic Values in Fisheries
Transdisciplinary research in fishery science – are we making progress influencing policy making?
The Ghosts of Adam Smith: The Past, Present, and Future of Fishery Subsidies
Payments for Ecosystem Services in fisheries and aquaculture – A rose by any other name?
Sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture: the multidisciplinary approach as a key for success Improving Food Security and Reducing Poverty through Intra-regional Fish Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa
Innovations in governance of highly migratory and transboundary fisheries
Presentations included a one day long set of special sessions called “Industry & Policy Day”. Topics included:
Marketing, Ethics, Responsibility
Market Challenges: ethics and social responsibility
Market implications and possible solutions: certification, ethics and social responsibility
Reformed CFP--Implications for routes to market
Global Market: connections and prospective opportunities--horizons, risks
Landing Obligation
Experiences from further afield
Implementing the Landing Obligation in the reformed CFP--practical challenges and effects on fishing businesses--2016 story so far
Adapt, improvise and overcome--fishermen's responses to the Landing Obligation
Government solutions
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Conference Sponsors
Aberdeenshire Council, Environmental Defense Fund, The European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE), Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, Seafish, Sea Grant Oregon, Scottish Whitefish Producers Association (SWFPA), WWF, World Bank, United Nations University Fisheries Training Program (UNUFTP). Best Student Paper and developing country participant travel support was provided by U.S. NOAA.
Suggested Bibliographic Reference:
Challenging New Frontiers in the Global Seafood Sector: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, July 11-15, 2016. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Corvallis, 2016.
IIFET does not take copyright on materials included in our proceedings. We request that presenters make their contribution to the conference accessible through the IIFET collection at Oregon State University's ScholarsArchive.
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