Chapter 7 Effort and capacity-based fisheries management

Publisher Summary Effort based fisheries management is an alternative management system to the total allowable catch (TAC) system. The European Union (EU) has started to use both management systems in parallel by supplementing the traditional TAC fleet capacity restrictions with sea-day restrictions from the year 2003. However, global examples of effort-based management systems are scarce. This chapter describes and evaluates the knowledge base of command and control effort and capacity regulation. In this chapter the knowledge base of management and advice for implementing effort regulation, in partly national fisheries systems and partly multi-jurisdictional systems with the relative stability for historical rights of international resource allocation and sharing are evaluated. Knowledge about fishers' behavior in relation to regulations is also addressed, and economic incentives for effort allocation, switching among fisheries, discarding, and fleet adaptation are discussed. Overall knowledge of compliance and incentives to comply with regulations and the concept of legitimacy are comparatively addressed for effort management and TAC-based management among the selected examples.

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