This book widens the perspective on implementing fisheries management. The sample cases address legal, administrative, and political challenges in conservation policy practice. The book also examines how changes in political goals occur during implementation.

The state of the Northeast Atlantic fisheries in recent years has highlighted - plementation as the Achilles heel of modern fisheries management: discards and unreported or misreported landings are in many cases recognised to effectively subvert sound conservation goals. Social science literature on fisheries mana- ment has tended to regard the implementation of resource conservation policies mainly as a question of effective enforcement. This literature regards surveillance and penalty as the key mechanism through which fishermen keep to catch restr- tions and loyally report their catches. This book emerged because several years of research on fishermen's compliance had made us uneasy about this rather narrow approach to the problem of implementation. This uneasiness motivated us to widen the approach to the question of implementing conservation policies in the fisheries. Taking Norway as an example, its fishing fleet consists of some 7,000 vessels spread along a coastline of more than 20,000 km, populated by less than 5 million people. The idea of ensuring desirable behaviour through surveillance and - forcement alone is almost absurd in such a context, as the task is impossible by any reasonable means. The Norwegian implementation system has thus had to rely heavily on the incentives provided by the rules and legitimacy created through a century of state/industry collaboration. Different coastal states face very different conditions in terms of solving typical implementation problems such as discards and misreporting.

The first systematic analysis of systems for implementing fisheries conservation politics The first systematic historical outline of the development of fisheries management systems in the Northeast Atlantic The first in-depth cross-national comparative analysis of fisheries management implementation systems in the Northeast Atlantic

Inhalt
The Problem of Implementing Policies for Sustainable Fishing.- The Arrival of Modern Fisheries Management in the North Atlantic: A Historical Overview.- Implementation of Resource Conservation Policies in the Norwegian Fisheries: A Historical Outline.- From Catch Quotas to Effort Regulation: Politics and Implementation in the Faeroese Fisheries.- Recovery Plans and the Balancing of Fishing Capacity and Fishing Possibilities: Path Dependence in the Common Fisheries Policy.- Implementation Politics: The Case of Denmark Under the Common Fisheries Policy.- The Politics of Implementation in Resource Conservation: Comparing the EU/Denmark and Norway.