Abstract
This chapter describes small-scale fisheries in Slovenia from 1991 to 2014 in the context of implementing Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and its ambition for sustainable development. Firstly, we analyse socio-political and economic changes from 1991, a significant year for Slovene small-scale fisheries, dealing with systemic aspects involving politicians, fisheries specialists, and fishers. This period marked a significant decrease in waters designated for industrial fisheries. Consequently, numerous fishers enrolled in small-scale fisheries. Previous jurisdictions over marine management were also transferred from institutions in the former Republic of Yugoslavia to Slovenia, which first had to establish a national network of fisheries institutions. Subsequently, we describe the processes of EU accession and “harmonisation” of national legislation with EU regulations. Reflecting on this transition, we depict the situation of small-scale fishers in Slovenia such as grappling with borders, regulatory requirements, and new development projects.
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The following article is part of the ARRS programme “Heritage on the margins: New perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond national” (P5-0408)) led by Dr. Špela Ledinek Lozej (ZRC SAZU, Slovenia) and part of the EQUIP project FISHERCOAST led by Dr. Ajit Menon (Madras Institute of Development Studies, India).
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Memorandum of understanding between the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Government of the Italian Republic on the establishment of a common routing system and traffic separation scheme in the northern Adriatic (ULRS 2000: 1578–1583].
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In the local vernacular the name Delamaris is still in use for former food processing and fish canning industry. The name is also used for industrial fishing fleet.
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Contribution of fishing to the Slovene economy is providing only about 0.014 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Faoadriamed.org 2016).
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The difference between these two categories is that sport fishers are members of fishing clubs, whereas recreational fishers occasionally buy fishing permits. Sport fishers are obliged to fill in the catches in their cards and must report them annually to the Fisheries Research Institute of Slovenia. In practice, sport and recreational fishers do not return the data on their catches as they should and consequently the statistics on catches are not precise.
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See footnote 4.
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Council Regulation (EC) No 1967/2006 of 21 December 2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea, amending Regulation (EEC) No 2847/93 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1626/94. Chapter 4, Article 13, states: “1. The use of towed gears shall be prohibited within 3 nautical miles of the coast or within the 50 m isobath where that depth is reached at a shorter distance from the coast /… The use of trawl nets shall be prohibited within 1.5 nautical miles of the coast.” (EC No 1967/2006: 28–29).
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The establishment, management and organisation of companies in Slovenia is regulated by the Companies Act, which is fully harmonised with EU legislation.
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Data on “persons in FTEs” actually do not show how many people combine fishery with other activities. Recently it was said, that 40 people make a living from fisheries.
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InfoRib is Fisheries Information System at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food.
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Some journalists (Mužič 2005), in the central Slovenian daily, such as Dnevnik, even played with the idea that the traditional Piran grey mullet would now be replaced by the Fonda seabass.
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In the national daily Delo.si (Je. G. 2015) the phrase “fishing and mariculture communities” was introduced in some articles to replace the phase “fishing communities”, announcing this change also on the discursive level.
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Janko Spreizer, A., Rogelja Caf, N. (2020). Small-Scale Fisheries in Slovenia (Northeastern Adriatic): From Borders to Projects. In: Pascual-Fernández, J., Pita, C., Bavinck, M. (eds) Small-Scale Fisheries in Europe: Status, Resilience and Governance. MARE Publication Series, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37371-9_9
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