The harvesting capacity of the European fishing fleet far exceeds the reproductive potential of the resource base. As a result, most European Union fisheries are both biologically and economically over-exploited. A series of fleet-reduction policies have been introduced in order to bring the...

As with many shrimp fisheries, the North Sea brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) fishery has been characterised by by-catch and discarding of juvenile fish species that are of value to other fleet segments. To offset this externality, the mandatory use of veil nets or separator panels was introduced...