Making Fisheries Management Work

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. The Problem of Implementing Policies for Sustainable Fishing

   • Stig S. Gezelius

   Pages 1-25

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

   • Stig S. Gezelius

   Pages 27-40

4. Implementation of Resource Conservation Policies in the Norwegian Fisheries: A Historical Outline

   • Stig S. Gezelius

   Pages 41-98

5. From Catch Quotas to Effort Regulation: Politics and Implementation in the Faeroese Fisheries

   • Stig S. Gezelius

   Pages 99-129

6. Recovery Plans and the Balancing of Fishing Capacity and Fishing Possibilities: Path Dependence in the Common Fisheries Policy

   • Troels Jacob Hegland, Jesper Raakjær

   Pages 131-159

7. Implementation Politics: The Case of Denmark Under the Common Fisheries Policy

   • Troels Jacob Hegland, Jesper Raakjær

   Pages 161-205

8. The Politics of Implementation in Resource Conservation: Comparing the EU/Denmark and Norway

   • Stig S. Gezelius, Troels Jacob Hegland, Hilary Palevsky, Jesper Raakjær

   Pages 207-229

9. Back Matter

   Pages 231-235

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The state of the Northeast Atlantic fisheries in recent years has highlighted - plementation as the Achilles heel of modern fisheries management: discards and unreported or misreported landings are in many cases recognised to effectively subvert sound conservation goals. Social science literature on fisheries mana- ment has tended to regard the implementation of resource conservation policies mainly as a question of effective enforcement. This literature regards surveillance and penalty as the key mechanism through which fishermen keep to catch restr- tions and loyally report their catches. This book emerged because several years of research on fishermen’s compliance had made us uneasy about this rather narrow approach to the problem of implementation. This uneasiness motivated us to widen the approach to the question of implementing conservation policies in the fisheries. Taking Norway as an example, its fishing fleet consists of some 7,000 vessels spread along a coastline of more than 20,000 km, populated by less than 5 million people. The idea of ensuring desirable behaviour through surveillance and - forcement alone is almost absurd in such a context, as the task is impossible by any reasonable means. The Norwegian implementation system has thus had to rely heavily on the incentives provided by the rules and legitimacy created through a century of state/industry collaboration. Different coastal states face very different conditions in terms of solving typical implementation problems such as discards and misreporting.

• European Union (EU)
• Fisheries
• Fisheries Politics
• Fisheries management
• Policy
• Resource Conservation
• development
• fishing
• politics
• marine and freshwater sciences

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

  Stig S. Gezelius

• Innovative Fisheries Management (IFM) Aalborg University Research Centre, Denmark

  Jesper Raakjær

Policies and ethics