A neo-institutionalist approach to fisheries management systems in Europe and North America

Une approche néo-institutionnaliste des systèmes de gestion des pêches en Europe et en Amérique du Nord

Pascal Le Floc'H and James R. Wilson
Additional contact information
Pascal Le Floc'H: AMURE - Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer - IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer - UBO - Université de Brest - IUEM - Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - UBO - Université de Brest - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
James R. Wilson: UQAR - Université du Québec à Rimouski

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This article focuses on the advantages and limitations of regionalization in fisheries, using the experiences of Europe, the United States, and Canada. Regionalization in European fisheries has encountered several obstacles that have greatly reduced its scope since implemented in 2004. After discussing the historical dimension of the Common Fisheries Policy, the methodological approach draws on neo-institutional economics and research on the socio-systems. The third section is devoted to a comparative approach between three main fisheries management systems in Europe, the United-States and Canada. Since the passage of the Magnuson Act, the U.S. has experimented with advanced forms of decentralization. Canada, on the other hand, has evolved towards a more centralized form of fisheries management. In reviewing these three cases, Europe seems to be somewhere between these other two examples. Decentralized management using markets and rights-based management in principle offers a better allocation of fishing efforts than centralized management because it takes into account the regional or even local nature of the resources exploited and the human populations that depend on them. However, the financial burden related to decentralized fisheries management may be expensive for the institutions involved. The comparative approach of the three major fisheries management systems is based on institutions guided by the search for a compromise between ecological and socio-economic criteria. Indeed, fisheries management in Europe and North American is now integrated into an ecosystems approach.

Keywords: économie; gestion des pêches; institutions; europe; Amérique du Nord (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-02151067v1
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2019, 27 (3), pp.297-309. ⟨10.1051/nss/2019043⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-02151067v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02151067

DOI: 10.1051/nss/2019043

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().