Quo Vadis Common Fisheries Policy?

Offers a guide and provides an analysis of how a public European fisheries policy should be evaluated, implemented, and reformed

Quo Vadis Common Fisheries Policy? is an essential book that provides an authoritative guide to the future challenges that face the public European fisheries policy. Written by a noted expert with 30 years' experience in fisheries policies, the book provides the information needed to analyze how a public EU policy should be evaluated, implemented, and reformed.

The book examines the difficulties of implementing the new policy including the application of the objectives of the 2013 policy reform. The author explores the myriad challenges that face the new policy due to global warming, pollution, and other global drivers. The book compares the new policy with other fisheries policy, particularly with the United States fisheries policy under the Magnusson-Stevens Act. The book offers an opportunity to address and discuss the challenges and obstacles that are not currently in the public domain. This important book:

• Provides a unique view from a noted expert and former policy insider

• Offers a critical analysis of a public EU policy from a pro-European standpoint.

• Gives a foundational resource to aid in the debate on the future of the Common Fisheries Policy

• Includes topics that go beyond EU's policy and have implications for fisheries' management around the world

Written for administrations and stakeholders in the European and international fishing industry, Quo Vadis Common Fisheries Policy? addresses the challenges of EU's new fisheries policy and offers a comparison of the US fisheries policy. The book helps foster much-needed debate about this topic.

Autorentext

ERNESTO PENAS LADO, is retired. He worked for nearly 30 years at the Directorate for Maritime Policy and Fisheries of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.

Inhalt
Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Disclaimer xvii

1 The common fisheries policy: stability or change? 1

Introduction: fisheries, a conservative world 1

A distributional policy 1

Policy change vs. policy stability 2

Why do policies change? 4

Legal change vs. policy change 4

Does the CFP change too much or too little? 6

Policy rigidity vs. policy flexibility: why is the CFP so rigid? 7

Policy implementation and policy change: the challenge of implementing the 2013 reform 8

The challenges of implementation 9

The CFP's legendary bad press 9

The reformed CFP: success or failure? 10

The notion of policy success in fisheries management 10

Policy results: how good are they? 13

Improving reporting of policy performance 18

If the CFP is not so bad, why advocating policy change? 22

References 23

2 The objectives of the CFP 25

Introduction 25

The common fisheries policy in the Treaty 26

Fisheries policy: a multi-objective policy 26

The objectives in Article 39 of the Treaty 26

Other legal principles applicable to the CFP 27

Policy objectives in other countries 28

The United States 29

Australia 30

New Zealand 31

Norway 31

The case for full exploitation of fishery resources 32

Preventing overfishing or fully exploiting? 32

Is under-exploitation positive? 32

Is under-exploitation a realistic scenario in the CFP? 33

The example of the US 33

Under-exploitation in the EU? 34

Under-exploitation vs. over-exploitation 36

The consequences of under-exploitation 37

The effects on other marine areas 37

The effects on land: is livestock production better than fishing? 37

The public debate 38

Are the fishery objectives of the new CFP too rigid? 39

The lessons from the US system 39

Socio-economic objectives vs. biological delivery: should the policy establish specific socio-economic targets? 40

References 41

3 Implementing maximum sustainable yield 43

What is maximum sustainable yield? 43

Defining MSY 43

MSY in the reformed CFP 44

MSY in international law 44

MSY and the Treaty 45

Is maximum economic yield a better option? 45

An area around MSY 46

MSY as biomass or as fishing mortality? 47

Introduction 47

Bmsy as an aspirational objective 49

The interpretation by environmental NGOs 50

Single stock objectives in the marine ecosystems: can all stocks be above Bmsy in mixed fisheries? 50

Bmsy, an elusive parameter 51

The US system 51

Estimating Fmsy 52

Single-stock Fmsy vs. ecosystem-based Fmsy 52

Proxies for data-poor fisheries 52

Alternative approaches: escapement strategies 53

Fmsy as a target or as a limit? 53

The notion of risk in fishery management 54

The US case 55

Fmsy: a point value or a range? 55

Background 55

The case for fishing mortality ranges 56

F ranges: handle with care. Are they precautionary? 58

The on-going experience: MSY in multiannual management plans 58

F ranges and the choke species problem: the Baltic precedent 58

The consolidation of F ranges 59

The safeguards: biomass thresholds 60

Should all plans reproduce that precedent? 60

Fmsy for all stocks: what does it mean? 61

Data-poor and secondary stocks: manage them to MSY? 61

Introduction 61

Which stocks to manage? 62

Are the EU-managed stocks the right ones? 63 <p&gt...