FAO Fisheries Report No. 289 Supplement 2FIPP/R289 Suppl.2 (En)
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PAPERS PRESENTED
at the
EXPERT CONSULTATION ON THE REGULATION OF FISHING EFFORT (FISHING MORTALITY)

CONTENTS

Rome, 17–26 January 1983


A Preparatory Meeting for the FAO World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development


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PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT

An Expert Consultation on the Regulation of Fishing Effort was convened by FAO in Rome, 17–26 January 1983, as one of the preparatory meetings for the World Conference. The purpose of the Consultation was to review the experiences of countries with fisheries management techniques. The report of the Consultation, as approved by the participants at the conclusion of the meeting, was distributed in 1983. The papers presented at the Consultation have been prepared as supplements to the Report. The first supplement contains the abstracts of the papers in three languages: English, French and Spanish. This document is Supplement 2 and contains those papers that specifically relate to the theoretical aspects of fisheries management and its practice in a general manner. Supplement 3 contains those papers that cover the management approaches adopted and experiences by individual countries. Supplements 2 and 3 are available in English only.


Abstract
The papers contained in this supplement cover theoretical aspects of fisheries management and its practice in a general manner. Two aspects of fisheries management are reviewed from the perspective of the market for fish and from the fishermen's view. The majority of the papers discuss specific regulatory techniques such as fixed fishing gear, selectivity of fishing gears including mesh size regulation, controls over numbers of fishing vessels and the effects of various financial measures. Several of the papers examine approaches to fisheries regulation that attempt to overcome the common property aspect of fisheries resources. The last paper re-examines the basic equilibrium theory that is applied to most fisheries.

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FAO, 1984 Papers presented at the Expert Consultation on the regulation of fishing effort (fishing mortality). Rome, 17–26 January 1983. A preparatory meeting for the FAO World Conference on fisheries management and development. FAO Fish.Rep., (289) Suppl.2: 214 p.

EDITORIAL NOTE

The papers contributed to the Expert Consultation on the Regulation of Fishing Effort (Fishing Mortality), convened by the Fisheries Department of FAO at Rome during January 17–26, 1983, fall more or less distinctly into three divisions or groups. There is, firstly, a group of 15 papers dealing with theoretical aspects of fishery management and with its practice in a broad and general manner. The remaining papers, roughly two dozen in number, are about equally divided between, (a) a group describing the approaches adopted and the problems encountered by individual countries in the design and implementation of fishery-management programmes, and (b) a group in which experience in the management of particular fisheries is described. Certain of the papers in the last-mentioned group might be defined as reports of case studies.

The division into three groups is by no means absolute, of course. Even in the first group of papers, one finds frequent reference to specific fisheries and this tendency is stronger still in the case of the second group. Per contra, several papers in the second and third groups are of theoretical as well as analytical significance. In one or two instances, also, selection as between groups two and three presented some difficulty. Nevertheless, based on the various writers' major theme or focus of interest, the classification is justifiable and useful.

Some explanation of the order in which the papers are arranged perhaps is necessary. Within the first group, the first three papers set the stage, as it were, and the remainder follow an order reflecting the evolvement of approaches to fishery management. The papers in the second group are listed geographically - from Europe, through North America to the Far East - illustrating convergence as well as differentiation in the approaches evolved in varying physical, socio-economic, cultural and political environments. In the third group of papers, although largely supplementary to those in the preceding group, the arrangement is by author (alphabetically).

In preparing these papers for publication, textual emendation has been minimal. Approximately a half dozen papers, by authors writing in English as a foreign language, required substantial revision of grammar and usage. In a few other cases, clarification of the text necessitated a change of phrasing or terminology, which was undertaken with the guidance of participants in the Consultation. Otherwise, revision has been restricted to the correction of typographical errors and the like. Minor details and other attempts have been made to impose a uniform style or structure (paragraphing, etc.) on these papers.

 W.C. MacKenzie
Ottawa
(December 1983)

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CONTENTS

AuthorTitle
Gulland, J.A.Introduction: Some notes for the Consultation on the Regulation of Fishing Effort
MacSween, I.The interaction between fisheries management and the marketing of fish
Thompson, D.B.Fishermen and Fisheries Management
McGoodwin, J.R.Some examples of self-regulatory mechanisms in unmanaged fisheries
Caddy, J.F.Indirect approaches to regulation of fishing effort
Skud, B.E.Manipulation of fixed gear and the effect on catch-per-unit effort
Jones, R.Mesh size regulation and its role in fisheries management
Thompson, D.B. and Ben-Yami, M.Fishing gear selectivity and performance
Gulland, J.A.Control of the amount of fishing by catch limits
Pope, J.G.Notes on the scientific problems of TAC management
Brochmann, B.S.Regulation of fishing effort through vessel licences
Panayotou, J.Territorial use rights in fisheries
Doucet, F.J.Fishermen's quotas: a method of controlling fishing effort
Brochmann, B.S.Financial measures to regulate effort
Caddy, J.F.An alternative to equilibrium theory for management of fisheries