Reducing fishing capacity
Subtitle: best practices for decommissioning schemes.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9789264049116
Subjects: Fishery management; Fishery policy; Fisheries -- Economic aspects; Fish populations; Fishes -- Conservation
Description: Too many fishing vessels chasing too few fish is a persistent problem in many countries. To address this, governments often turn to vessel decommissioning schemes as a means of adjusting fishing capacity to match available fish resources. This report presents a set of best practice guidelines on the design and implementation of decommissioning schemes. By drawing on case studies of decommissioning schemes from OECD and non-OECD countries, it provides policy makers and fisheries managers with detailed analysis of the economic issues surrounding decommissioning schemes.--Publisher's description.

United States; Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands; Australia; Chinese Taipei; France; Korea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116).

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Economic issues in decommissioning programmes; title: Selected case studies of decommissioning schemes; title: Political economy aspects of decommissioning schemes; title: Principles and guidelines for decommissioning schemes.