A comparative review of fisheries management experiences in the <scp>E</scp>uropean <scp>U</scp>nion and in other countries worldwide: <scp>I</scp>celand, <scp>A</scp>ustralia, and <scp>N</scp>ew <scp>Z</scp>ealand

Marchal, Paul; Andersen, Jesper Levring; Aranda, Martín; Fitzpatrick, Mike; Goti, Leyre; Guyader, Olivier; Haraldsson, Gunnar; Hatcher, Aaron; Hegland, Troels Jacob; Floch, Pascal Le; Macher, Claire; Malvarosa, Loretta; Maravelias, Christos D.; Mardle, Simon; Murillas, Arantza; Nielsen, J. Rasmus; Sabatella, Rosaria Felicità; Smith, Anthony D. M.; Stokes, Kevin; Thoegersen, Thomas; Ulrich, Clara

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“…However, they fail to recognize the positioning of New Zealand systems within a global context, as exemplified by comparative analyses (2,4). Our findings that New Zealand fisheries management systems are among the world's most successful at meeting objectives are consistent with previous findings (4,5,7,8,10). To improve fisheries management globally, the greatest gains to be made are in the lower performing countries, where there are currently insufficient resources and attention to achieving basic management goals.…”

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“…In 2016, assessed stocks accounted for 72% of total landings by volume (79% by value), representing the majority of commercial fish species; 97% of assessed landings by volume were identified as having no sustainability issues for target species (6). The Quota Management System has generally been successful at reducing fleet overcapacity and fishing effort, eliminating harmful subsidies, maintaining productive stocks, and rebuilding previously depleted stocks (5)(6)(7)(8).…”

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“…In classical fisheries science, it is increasingly assumed that the concept of MSY, as a reference for the catch rate, should be reinterpreted as an upper limit rather than a management target, by replacing the traditional goal of maximizing the catch by that of maximizing economic profit or even minimizing the impact of fishing (Froese et al, 2011(Froese et al, , 2016a, although this is not being implemented yet in national and EU fishing policies (Marchal et al, 2016). This requires the introduction of a range of management tools that permits an overall reduction in exploitation rates.…”

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North East Atlantic vs. Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas as Fisheries Management Tool

2017

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The effectiveness of management initiatives implemented in the context of the European Common Fisheries Policy has been questioned, especially with regard to the Mediterranean. Some of the analyses made to compare the fishing activity and management measures carried out in the North East Atlantic and in the Mediterranean do not take into account some of the differentiating peculiarities of each of these regions. At the same time, they resort to traditional fisheries management measures and do not discuss the role of marine protected areas as a complementary management tool. In this respect, the apparent failure of marine protected areas in the North-East Atlantic compared with the same in the Mediterranean is challenging European fishery scientists. Application of the classical holistic view of ecological succession to the functioning of fishery closures and no-use areas highlights the importance of combining both management regimes to fully satisfy both fishery-and biodiversity-oriented goals. We advocate that an optimal management strategy for designing an MPA to protect biodiversity and sustain fishing yields consists of combining a network of no-use areas (close to their mature state) with fish boxes (buffer zones maintained by fishing disturbance in a relatively early successional stage, where productivity is higher), under a multi-zoning scheme. In this framework, the importance of no-use areas for fisheries is based on several observations: (1) They preserve biological diversity at regional scale, at all levels-specific, habitat/seascape, and also genetic diversity and the structure of populations, allowing natural selection to operate. (2) They permit the natural variability of the system to be differentiated from the effects of regulation and to be integrated in appropriate sampling schemes as controls. (3) They maintain the natural size and age structure of the populations, hence maximizing potential fecundity, allowing biomass export to occur from core to regulated areas, dampening the fluctuations derived from deviations from the theoretical optimal effort in the fishing zone.

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“…(CE) 1967/2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea (hereafter referred to as "the MEDREG") introduced several technical measures and promoted "a different approach to fisheries management based on a decentralized decision-making process and on setting up multi-annual management plans both at national and community level" (EC, 2006;Marchal et al, 2016). In the selected GSAs, four national management plans for trawlers were adopted in 2011.…”

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Key Economic Characteristics of Italian Trawl Fisheries and Management Challenges

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Two key measures of economic performance are calculated and analyzed for three important Italian trawl fisheries (Northern Thyrrenian Sea, South of Sicily, Northern Adriatic Sea): the Net Economic Returns (NER), which informs on the economic performance and is considered a proxy of resource rent in fisheries and the Return on Fixed Tangible Assets (ROFTA), which is used as an approximation of the Return on Investment (ROI) and is a key financial and performance indicator for a fisherman in order to take a decision to operate in a fishery. The trend of these indicators over the last decade highlights a poor economic performance that is associated with an overall poor condition of the state of resources. The trend of economic performance indicators is put in relation, on a time-based approach, with the different types of management measures applied over the last decade. We show that trends of fishing effort and economic indicators as well as statistical analysis return a coherent interpretation of the main factors affecting the profitability levels of the selected fleets. The study reveals that management measures impacted negatively on the profitability of the sector in the short run. However, economic indicators inverted the trend in the last 3 years. An increasing biomass trend as well as the improvement in fishing mortality of some few stocks, together with the reduction of input costs could be considered as positive drivers which impacted positively on economic profitability of the fisheries concerned. The study argues that even the technical and fishery management provisions in the Mediterranean Sea may have started to reverse the trend in economic profitability of the analyzed fleets. An additional management effort needs, however, to be developed on an urgent basis in order to ensure the achievement of the management goals defined by the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

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A comparative review of fisheries management experiences in the European Union and in other countries worldwide: Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand

Abstract: This study compares the details and performance of fisheries management between

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