ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on September 21, 2007
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2007 64(8):1612-1613; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsm143
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Fishers' responses to management measures and their socio-economic effects
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This session presented a wide range of papers on cooperative research, design of alternative gears and fishing strategies, and new analyses to support management. The contributed papers reflected a real desire to explore different approaches and strategies to fishery management.
It is apparent that fishery policy has had a mixed record of success and failure at best. In most regions of the world, many stocks are still being overfished or have been severely overfished in the past. Although rebuilding programmes for overfished stocks have been developed, nationally as well as internationally, only a few have been successful, many others are works in progress and, in too many cases, rebuilding