In the recent years, resource depletion of inshore and coastal fisheries has seriously impacted Taiwan. Local fishing communities’ economic profits in these fisheries have declined and resulted in lower earned incomes for the fishermen. These phenomena have lead many scholars, government agencies and fishing communities to evaluate the optimal number of operating vessels in these fisheries. Thi...

Fisheries models are generally built to assess the dynamics of a resource with a given fishing mortality which level can be decided by some “decision maker” and/or which can be an observed process, e.g. times series proportional to some observed values of fishing effort. In these cases, the resource dynamics is represented “conditionally to” fishing mortality. This mortality must be therefore p...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a major concern in fisheries management around the world. Several measures have been taken to address the problem. In Lake Victoria, the alleviation of IUU fishing is implemented through the Regional Plan of Action (RPOA-IUU), which restricts use of certain fishing gear, as well as prohibits fishing in closed areas and during closed seasons....

Fishing resources are important generators of income and food for the rural and urban people in the Amazon. The present paper investigates fishing and environmental variables determining fishing production landed in Manaus and evaluates the relative abundance of commercial fishes in the different sub-systems of the Central Amazon basin. Information collected was used to test the new catch index...

In the outer archipelago of the province of Södermanland in the east of middle Sweden, the remains of fishing camps are frequent. The remains consist of hut ruins, jetties and places where the fishermen dried their nets. The oldest fishing camps of this type are dated to the Viking Age or just before. Although the changes in society during centuries influenced the economic conditions for fishin...

Ownership of land in the Western sense involves the establishment of boundaries that simultaneously contain, restrict and grant rights within a given space. Discourse on Indigenous concepts of ownership often point to the state of ‘belonging’, a deep connection with a given territory rather than a distinctly marked space that one occupies. In coastal Indigenous cultures territory will often ext...

Abstract Climate change directly impacts the marine landscape where fishers operate. Most rely on fishing for food, income and/or employment. A changing ocean can therefore significantly impact fishers’ lives and hinder full exercise of their rights access to fisheries resources, fish, work, culture, a healthy, clean sustainable environment. This article questions whether international law supp...

The environmental impacts of food production are increasingly influencing consumer’s choices. To maintain market access in this context, the fishing industry must adopt strategies and technologies that reduce their carbon emissions, footprint, bycatch seabed impact. In study, closure a depleted scallop ground, to enable stock recovery, coupled with transition cooperative management system, base...

This paper identifies factors that influence the demand for a black bass fishing trip taken in the Southeastern U.S. using a double hurdle negative binomial count data model. The probability of fishing for a black bass is estimated in the first stage and the trip frequency for fishing a black bass is estimated in the second stage given that the individual has a positive probability towards unde...