Fisheries
Fish are a valuable resource, providing an important source of food and income on a global scale, especially for poor people. Fisheries in developing countries often suffer from the lack of well defined property rights (open access), causing problems with management, overfishing, compliance, and stock conservation. The EfD fisheries theme addresses these issues in a series of research projects:
Fisheries and trade analyzes the link between free trade and open access fisheries. We analyze the scope for eco-labels and poverty implications from fish export.
Regulation and compliance analyzes what determines compliance with regulations and what can be done in order to reduce the violation of regulations when corruptions exists.
Distributional and gender issues deals with distributional effects resulting from changes in fisheries management that often lead to different impacts on the situations of women and men.
Management and performance compares the outcomes of similar fisheries with different management in order to evaluate the effect of management.
Bio-economics and ecology studies the interdependence between species and implications of genetics for the management of fisheries.
Management of fisheries in developing countries studies the potential of improving fisheries management when general problems of developing countries are considered.
