International food and raw material security issues has gained much more importance than ever. This study examines that the following questions ‘Who depends onwhom?’ ‘What is level of dependency?’ considering relationships between “fisheries context” (catch aquaculture production, total fisheries export import,fisheries import value, fish consumption per capita, processed product) human develop...

Citation: Raicevich S, Battaglia P, Fortibuoni T, Romeo T, Giovanardi O and Andaloro F (2017) Critical Inconsistencies in Early Implementations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Common Fisheries Policy Objectives Hamper Policy Synergies in Fostering the Sustainable Exploitation of Mediterranean Fisheries Resources. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:316. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00316 Critical Inco...

THEA C. JOHANOS, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1601 Kapiolani Boulevard, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, U.S.A.; ALBERT L. HARTING, Harting Biological Consulting, 8898 Sandy Creek Lane, Bozeman, Montana 59715, U.S.A.; TRACY A. WURTH, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, 1000 Pope Road, Honolu...

1Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. 2U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. 3Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, ...

United States fisheries are managed by regional councils. Fishermen can participate in fisheries managed by multiple councils, and effort controls in one region could lead to effort leakage into another. Using difference-in-differences, we test for leakage across regional fisheries boundaries for a catch share program in New England. We find evidence that the New England groundfish sector progr...

Fisheries data assembled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that global marine fisheries catches increased to 86 million tonnes in 1996, then slightly declined. Here, using a decade-long multinational 'catch reconstruction' project covering the Exclusive Economic Zones of the world's maritime countries and the High Seas from 1950 to 2010, and accounting for all fisheries, we...

Failures in fisheries management have been linked to our inability to embrace the inherent uncertainty of fisheries systems. Fisheries decisions should be made on the basis of integrated evaluations of strategy alternatives, where comparisons of comprehensive scenarios incorporate strategic biological and socio-economic objectives and constraints, and explicitly take account of system uncertain...

Recreational fisheries can be prone to severe declines, yet these fisheries, particularly catch-and-release, are often data-limited, constraining our ability to conduct stock assessments. A combination of catch and effort indices derived from fisheries-dependent data (FDD) gathered from fishing logbooks could be a powerful approach to inform these data gaps. This study demonstrates the utility ...

Recent reports suggest that most of the world's commercial fisheries could collapse within decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions remains rare. Bioeconomic theory and case studies suggest that rights-based catch shares can provide individual incentives for sustainable harvest that is less prone to collapse. To test whether catch-share fishery re...