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The Dutch fishing industry is one of the smallest in the EU. Including the supply sector and retail trade, it employs circa 15,000 or less than 0.4% of total employment. In 1999 the fleet comprised 399 beam trawlers (cutters), 16 pelagic freezer trawlers and 77 mussel boats (Table 5.1) with a combined manpower of some 2,560 persons. Since 1993, the year of the influential policy document Vissen naar evenwicht, the number of vessels in the Dutch fleet has declined by some 13%. In terms of economic output, mussel cultivation, shrimping, cockle fishing and oyster farming dominate the inshore fisheries accounting for 24% of the total value of landings in 1999.
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van Ginkel, R. (2001). The Netherlands. In: Symes, D., Phillipson, J. (eds) Inshore Fisheries Management. Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1892-9_5
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