The economics of unwanted by-catch and a landing obligation

Peder Andersen, Lisa Ståhl

Abstract

Unwanted by-catch is a serious problem around the world. Often, by-catch is discarded and results in direct food waste, and indirectly often influences biodiversity, stock abundance and long-term catch. To minimize by-catch problems, various fisheries management rules are applied, such as legal minimum sizes of landed fish, mesh sizes in fishing gears and closed areas. A more dramatic approach is to reduce the discards of unwanted catches by a landing obligation for all caught fish, independent of size and quality. For some years, this has been part of the fishery policy in countries such as Norway and Iceland.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Fisheries Bioeconomics : Theory and Policy
EditorsJuan Carlos Seijo, Jon G. Sutinen
Number of pages22
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date1 Jan 2018
Pages77-98
Chapter6
ISBN (Print)978-1-138-56746-7
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-203-70578-0
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
SeriesRoutledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Number51

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