Alternative Management Systems for Fisheries focuses on the need for institutional change in order to accommodate new policy objectives, new stakeholders and new regulatory measures.

Alternative Management Systems for Fisheries are examined at different levels from the regionalisation of the CFP through costal state management to various forms of user participation in the management of local fisheries.

Contents

Introduction

1. Alternative Management Systems: a Basic Agenda for Reform
2. The Inadequacies and Ambiguities of the Common Fisheries Policy
3. The Need for a New Common Fisheries Policy

Scales of Management: Regional, National, Local

4. Regionlisation of the Common Fisheries Policy
5. Creating a UK Coastal State Fisheries Management Regime within the European Union
6. Fisheries Regions: an Organisational Structure for Fisheries Management in Finland

Hollowing Out the State: the Co-management Approach to Fisheries

7. Structure, Agency and Embeddedness: Sociological Approaches to Fisheries Managament Institutions
8. The Dutch Co-management System for Sea Fisheries
9. The Fish Producers' Organisations of the UK: a Strategic Analysis
10. The Functionality of Fisheries Management from the Perspective of Commerical Fisherman
11. There is More a Compliance than Legitimacy and More to Policy than Institutions

Integrated Management: an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

12. From Sustainable Resource Use to Governance of Marine Ecosystems: Function and Role of the Ethic of the Sea
13. Marine Environmental Management and Fisheries
14. Three Challenges to the Future of Fisheries Management in Norway: ITQs, Regional Co-management and Eco-Labelling
15. The Marine Stewardship Council Initiative: the Development of a Market Incentive Approach to Achieving Sustainable Fisheries
16. Integrated Approaches to Coastal Fisheries Management: the Isle of Wight and the Dutch Wadden Sea

The Control of Fishing Effort

17. The Legal Status of Marine Resources and the Concept of Ownership
18. Effort Regulation: a Viable Alternative in Fisheries Management?
19. Conditions for Implementing a Licensing System: the French Mediterranean Example
20. Alternative Management Models to Deal with the Purse Seiner Crisis in Catalonia

Conclusion

21. Institutional Change and the Reform of Fisheries Management: Some Outstanding Questions

Index

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