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The Arrival of Modern Fisheries Management in the North Atlantic: A Historical Overview

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Making Fisheries Management Work

Part of the book series: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries ((REME,volume 8))

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This chapter describes how TACs emerged as the dominant fisheries management form in the North Atlantic. It points out industrial, scientific and political factors that influenced the management reform that took place during the 1960s and 1970s and ended in the wide-spread adoption of TACs as the new management form. The chapter describes the discourses in the central fisheries management arena, mainly consisting of the North Atlantic fisheries commissions and ICES, and shows how the choice of management form was shaped by that time’s scientific and political challenges: the need to find a management measure with a comprehensible connection to fishing mortality which also provided for politically-feasible distribution among contracting states.

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  1. Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Insitute (NILF), 0030 Oslo, Norway

    Stig S. Gezelius

  2. Innovative Fisheries Management (IFM) Aalborg University Research Centre, PO Box 104, 9850 Hirtshals, Denmark

    Jesper Raakjær

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Gezelius, S.S. (2008). The Arrival of Modern Fisheries Management in the North Atlantic: A Historical Overview. In: Gezelius, S.S., Raakjær, J. (eds) Making Fisheries Management Work. Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8628-1_2

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