quota in the Kattegat region between Sweden and Denmark, the Irish Sea and the west of Scotland. Environmental groups have long called for the industry to adopt new technologies and practices that can substantially reduce 'bycatch'. Larger mesh size is one straightforward measure that can save more juvenile fish. Charles Clover, author of The End Of The Line, said: " It is ridiculous that we ca...

Melnychuk et al.’s comments in PNAS (1) that successful fisheries management requires the “capacity to limit fishing pressure” and “scientists are generally unanimous in calling for stronger management” echo comments made in many earlier publications. However, their conclusions about specific fisheries and management approaches lack credibility. Their analysis relies on an opinion survey, using...

malaysian mahseer, tor douronensis, locally known as “kelah” in peninsular malaysia or semah in sarawak is one of the important mahseers used for food as well as the aquarium industry and game fishing. this species is endemic to malaysian borneo river basins. the wild stocks of t. douronensis have declined substantially in recent years, due to over exploitation, pollution and illegal fishing pr...

Locally sustainable resource extraction activities, at times, transform into ecologically detrimental enterprises. Understanding such transitions is a primary challenge for conservation and management of many ecosystems. In marine systems, over-exploitation of small-scale fisheries creates problems such as reduced biodiversity and lower catches. However, long-term documentation of how governanc...

There is general agreement that many, if not most, fisheries subsidies are detrimental to effective resource management. There is not, however, general agreement about subsidies used for decommissioning/buyback purposes. One school of thought argues that such subsidies can have a positive impact upon resource management, by removing excess fleet capacity from the fisheries. An opposing school o...

This paper looks at the importance of scale economies – defined in terms of the benefits from innovation – from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. We argue that one can only gauge the degree of scale economies at the industry level by taking account of the degree of specialization – hence the reliance on international trade – as well as the size of an economy. We show that in Icel...

This paper used the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the technical efficiency of fishing vessels in Haizhou Bay, and then used the Tobit regression to define its influencing factors. This study shows that the overall fishing capacity utilization of fishing vessels at present is very low which indicates that there is a serious waste of resources problem in Haizhou Bay. Specifically, th...

The emergence of epizootic shell disease in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) has been devastating to the fishing industry in southern New England. In response, research was initiated to understand the roles of the environment, pathogens, and pollutants in the ecology and etiology of the disease. A comprehensive project was initiated in which tissues and hemolymph from 100 lobsters were...

Most marine protected areas are only partially protected in that they commonly permit fishing, a primary ecosystem-distorting activity. Many indeed are no more than ‘paper parks’. The creation of no-take MPAs lags well behind several national declarations of intent and certainly lags behind need. A letter calling for more of these no-take zones has been signed by 250 of the world’s leading scie...

When information is limited or costly, agents are unable to engage in optimal arbitrage. Excess price dispersion across markets can arise and goods may not be allocated efficiently; in this setting, information technologies may improve market performance and increase welfare. Between 1997 and 2001, mobile phone service was introduced throughout Kerala, a state in India with a large fishing indu...