Can fisheries management be quantified?

Abstract

Policy efforts to reduce fisheries impact have often created micro-management. Detailed regulations are restricting the fishing industry, and are also acknowledged to limit the progress towards sustainable management. Industry representatives, political bodies and scientists have therefore argued for more simplicity and transparency. Here, fisheries management is quantified in terms of trends in regulations for different Swedish fisheries in the Baltic Sea during the period 1995-2009. The results suggest that many fisheries are suffering from increased micro-management, but interestingly some fisheries showing a different trend. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Common Fisheries Policy; Micro-management; Regulations; Baltic Sea; Fisheries

Published in

Marine Policy
2014, Volume: 48, pages: 18-20 Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD

SLU Authors

• Hjelm, Joakim

  • Department of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG12 Responsible consumption and production
SDG14 Life below water


UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.02.021

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/66097