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The question of how the preferences of a broad range of stakeholders can be effectively brought into the process of fisheries governance is one that has yet to be resolved in the North Sea context. To date, a top-down style of fisheries governance, exemplified by the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), has failed to meet the expectations of all those involved in North Sea fisheries — from the science community to the fishing industry and from environmentalists to politicians. Part of this failure has been attributed, by stakeholders, to three democratic deficiencies of the CFP — its centralisation, its politicisation and its externalisation — which have collectively caused the exclusion of the majority of stakeholders from the process of fisheries governance This chapter considers what prospects two models of democracy — representative (currently in operation in North Sea fisheries governance) and deliberative (unexplored in North Sea fisheries governance) — offer for successfully engaging a broad range of stakeholders. I argue that the current governance framework is characterised by both ‘thin’ (electoral) and ‘thick’ (corporatist) types of representative democracy, but that knowledge of stakeholder preferences obtained by a process of deliberative democracy offers a better way of strengthening the legitimacy and effectiveness of North Sea fisheries governance. Research conducted using iterative stakeholder engagement (ISE) — derived from the deliberative model — to develop a framework for ecosystem-based fisheries management in the North Sea is employed to support this claim.
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Hatchard, J. (2005). Engaging Stakeholder Preferences Through Deliberative Democracy in North Sea Fisheries Governance. In: Gray, T.S. (eds) Participation in Fisheries Governance. Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3778-3_3
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