European Union's public fishing access agreements in developing countries
Le Manach, F.; Chaboud, C.; Copeland, D.; Cury, P.; Gascuel, D.; Kleisner, K.M.; Standing, A.; Sumaila, U.R.; Zeller, D.; Pauly, D. (2013). European Union's public fishing access agreements in developing countries. PLoS One 8(11): 10 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079899 In: PLoS One. Public Library of Science: San Francisco. ISSN 1932-6203; e-ISSN 1932-6203, more |   |
| Keywords | | | Author keywords | Fisheries Tuna Public policy Guinea-Bissau Marine fish Crustaceans Mauritania Senegal |
| Authors | | Top | - Le Manach, F.
- Chaboud, C.
- Copeland, D.
- Cury, P., more
| - Gascuel, D.
- Kleisner, K.M.
- Standing, A.
| - Sumaila, U.R.
- Zeller, D.
- Pauly, D., more
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| Abstract | The imperative to increase seafood supply while dealing with its overfished local stocks has pushed the European Union (EU) and its Member States to fish in the Exclusive Economic Zones of other countries through various types of fishing agreements for decades. Although European public fishing agreements are commented on regularly and considered to be transparent, this is the first global and historical study on the fee regime that governs them. We find that the EU has subsidized these agreements at an average of 75% of their cost (financial contribution agreed upon in the agreements), while private European business interests paid the equivalent of 1.5% of the value of the fish that was eventually landed. This raises questions of fisheries benefit-sharing and resource-use equity that the EU has the potential to address during the nearly completed reform of its Common Fisheries Policy. |
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