SEAwise Report on the key social and economic aspects of regional fisheries
Creators: name: Plataniotis, Angelos
name: Rindorf, Anna
name: Koundouri, Phoebe
name: Stratopoulou, Artemis
name: Jacobsen, Nis Sand
name: Brown, Elliot John
name: Bastardie, Francois
name: Savina-Rolland, Marie
name: Sánchez-Maroño, Sonia
name: Andrés, Marga
name: Garcia, Dorleta
name: Uhlmann, Sebastian
name: Reid, David
name: Romagnoni, Giovanni
name: Spedicato, Maria Teresa
name: Lembo, Giuseppe
name: Bitetto, Isabella
name: Liontakis, Angelos
name: Vassilopoulou, Celia
name: Papadopoulou, Nadia
name: Taylor, Marc
name: Kempf, Alexander
name: Stelzenmüller, Vanessa
name: Depestele, Jochen
name: Hamon, Katell
name: Kraan, Marloes
name: Northridge, Simon
name: Muench, Angela
name: Rüdiger Voss
name: Eliasen, Søren Qvist
name: Frangoudes, Katia
name: Heath, Michael
name: Moalla, Nadia
name: Melià, Paco
name: Poos, Jan Jaap
name: Binch, Logan
Publisher: name: Technical University of Denmark
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental management
Natural resource management

description: Fishing is a human activity with various social and economic implications. In most countries, those implications are key factors to consider when deciding on specific management strategies. In this report, the fisheries management strategies implemented in the different European marine regions are reviewed, and relevant indicators, models and tools that can be used to predict the effectiveness of these strategies, from a social and economic point of view are identified. The objective was to identify the critical social and economic aspects of fisheries, relevant social and economic indicators, and regionally‐relevant management measures to be considered in the evaluations of different management strategies later in the project. The scoping consultations and systematic reviews identified a long list of potentially relevant key social and economic aspects and management measures. Among these, the most frequently mentioned items identified in scoping with stakeholders were windfarms, employment/jobs, MPAs, food supply, small-scale fisheries, local communities and pollution. The systematic review identified landings (volume or value), effort (days at sea), fuel costs, number of vessels, profit, aspects of costs, economic performance, sustainability-resilience, compliance and capacity as frequently occurring topics. The fisheries management policies most frequently mentioned were effort control, landing obligation, Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ), MPAs and TAC. Among the papers analyzed, more than 30%, concerned the Mediterranean region, followed by Western Waters, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, indicating a higher contribution of Mediterranean studies to the conclusions. Aspects identified frequently in both scoping and in systematic reviews included MPAs and small-scale fisheries, which were all identified in both methods as frequently occurring. However, there were also aspects which appeared to be represented differently in the evaluations (e.g. employment and local communities) indicating discrepancies between the available knowledge and that sought by the end users. <br> The report describes results from the SEAwise project. More information can be found at https://seawiseproject.org/