The English Channel fishery is a multispecies multigear fishery that can be considered to be an amalgam of numerous separate sub-fisheries. Commercial activity in the fishery is predominantly undertaken by fishers from the UK and France. The purpose in this paper is to present the results of a...

Fishers are faced with multiple risks, including unpredictability of future catch rates, prices and costs. While the latter are largely beyond the control of fisheries managers, effective fisheries management should reduce uncertainty about future catches. Different management instruments are...

Surplus production models have been used in fisheries analysis for over 40 years. The traditional surplus production model incorporates the assumption that catch per unit of effort is constant for a given stock size. As a result, effort can be indefinitely applied to the fishery in the short...

Fishers are faced with multiple risks, including unpredictability of future catch rates, prices and costs. While the latter are largely beyond the control of fisheries managers, effective fisheries management should reduce uncertainty about future catches. Different management instruments are...

Improving the economic performance of fisheries is becoming increasinglyimportant in fisheries management, and in some cases, maximum economic yield (MEY) isset as a key management target. However, associated with MEY is a level of fishing activitythat is lower than would otherwise occur, even...

The Eastern tuna and billfish fishery (ETBF) is currently managed through an input quotasystem based on individual transferable effort units (the number of hooks) and a totalallowable effort level (i.e. total number of hooks) A spatial management policy based on aseries of differential...

Economic surveys of fisheries are undertaken in several countries as a means of assessing the economic performance of their fisheries. The level of economic profits accruing in the fishery can be estimated from the average economic profits of the boats surveyed. Economic profits consist of two...

Decommissioning programmes have been used in many countries in an attempt to reduce the level of overexploitation in fisheries. The extent to which human capital enhancement may offset capacity reductions, however, has not been previously examined. The study uses a stochastic production frontier...