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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on February 28, 2007
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2007 64(4):779-785; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsm007
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© 2007 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Fisheries management and institutional reform: a European perspective

David Symes

Department of Geography, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK

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Symes, D. 2007. Fisheries management and institutional reform: a European perspective. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 779–785.

Changes to the institutional frameworks that help shape fisheries policy-making are typically incremental and piecemeal, with governments content to tinker at the edges, but rarely willing to embrace fundamental reform. The present study outlines the nature of institutional frameworks and explores the need to ensure coherence across different scales of governance. Co-management and participative governance are commonly regarded as important recent developments. Although they may well satisfy notions of "good governance", their ability to deliver better policy, more effective management, and sustainable fisheries is open to question. In the search to improve the efficacy of fisheries management, three key issues are identified: restructuring of co-management organizations, clarification of property rights, and development of an ecosystem-based approach. Finally, attention is drawn to the challenge to fisheries governance posed by moves towards integrated management.

Keywords: co-management, ecosystem-based approach, European Union, institutional frameworks, integrated management, participative governance, property rights

Received 13 July 2006; accepted 9 January 2007; advance access publication 28 February 2007.


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