The operational units approach for fisheries management in the Mediterranean Sea
By: by Paolo Accadia and Ramón Franquesa.
Contributors: Franquesa, Ramón.; General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Series: Studies and reviews / General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean -- no. 80; Studies and reviews -- no. 80.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; FAO
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9789251056196
Subjects: Fishery management -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Aquaculture -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Fisheries -- Statistics -- Mediterranean Region -- Fisheries -- Statistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses; Statistics
Description: This document gives an overview of the discussions on the concept of Operational Units which was first conceived in 2000 and its development to date. The approach of categorizing fishing fleets into homogenous groups, or Operational Units, to implement effort control fisheries management, as requested by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, has been evaluated by a good number of workshops, meetings and pilot studies, the conclusions of which are summarized in this document. The data requirements and structure of four data compilation tables are also described in detail--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: The concept and its origin; title: The evolution (history) : from theory to practice; title: Results : data requirements : data compilation based on national routine monitoring schemes; title: Suitability to support the fishery management processes; title: Testing the OU concept in a fishery management context; title: Main conclusions.