Fishers' perceptions about the EU discards policy and its economic impact on small-scale fisheries in Galicia (North West Spain)

Sebastian Villasante, Graham J. Pierce, Cristina Pita, César Pazos Guimeráns, João Garcia Rodrigues, Manel Antelo, Jose Da Rocha, Javier García Cutrín, Lee C. Hastie, Pedro Veiga, Ussif Sumaila and Marta Coll

Ecological Economics, 2016, vol. 130, issue C, 130-138

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the European Union landing obligation in the Galician (North West of Spain) multispecies small-scale gillnet fishery. By combining results from semi-structured interviews with small-scale fishers and a bioeconomic model, we found that the percentage of discards for small-scale fisheries is usually low, which is consistent with general empirical observations globally but can be high when quotas are exhausted.

Keywords: Common Fisheries Policy; Discard ban; Fishers' perceptions; Economic impacts; Multispecies gillnet small-scale fishery; Galicia (North West of Spain) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.05.008

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