VMSbase is an R package devised to manage, process and visualize information about fishing vessels activity (provided by the vessel monitoring system--VMS) and catches/landings (as reported in the logbooks). VMSbase is primarily conceived to be user-friendly; to this end, a suite of state-of-the-art analyses is accessible via a graphical interface. In addition, the package uses a database platf...

The complexity of small-scale fisheries makes it difficult to predict the allocation of fishing effort among alternative target species in mixed fisheries, resulting in limitation for fisheries management. One reason for the difficulty is that fishing effort has been assumed as an aggregate of different components, without consideration of fishers’ decisions. In this paper, we use discrete choi...

Abstract Vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are particularly susceptible to bottom-fishing activity as they easily disturbed and slow recover. A data-driven approach was developed provide management options for the protection of VMEs under European Union “deep-sea access regulations.” total two within scenarios were developed. The first scenario defined VME closure areas without consideration ...

A major challenge for small-scale fisheries management is high spatial variability in the demography and life history characteristics of target species. Implementation of local management actions that can reduce overfishing and maximize yields requires quantifying ecological heterogeneity at small spatial scales and is therefore limited by available resources and data. Collaborative fisheries r...

We derive a dynamic theoretical model that tests the social optimum and selfish Nash equilibrium of a renewable resource, a stock of fish. In the social optimum, maximum fishing effort is observed in the last period only. The predictions are tested at a recreational fishing pond. The subjects, experienced recreational fishermen, are placed in groups of four and face a dynamic social dilemma. Th...