The Footprint of Distant Water Fleets on World Fisheries
Contents
Foreward
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Impacts of Distant Water fleets
An Ecological, Economic, and Social Assessment
Introduction
Project Direction and Management
Methodology
Overall Strategy
Ecological and Economic Modelling
Rapid Appraisal of Fisheries Sustainability
A Global Overview
Fishing Patterns of DWFs 1950-1994
Selected Case Studies of DWFs
Case Study: DWFs off Mauritania and Senegal
Boxed Case Study 1: Illegal Fishing in the Galapagos Islands
Case Study: Walleye Pollock and the North Pacific “Donut Hole”
Case Study: Iceland and DWFs
Boxed Case Study 2: The Norwegian Spring-Spawning Herring
Case Study: The Shadow of the Past: An Historical Perspective on the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, 1950-1992
Case Study: DWFs off Namibia
Ecosystem/Economic Impacts
Analysis of the Impacts of DWFs on Namibia
The Scenarios
Ecological Impacts
Economic Impacts
Implications for Namibian Fisheries
Status of West African Fleets
Rapid Appraisal of Distant Water Fleet Fisheries Relative to Home Fleets
Using the RAPFISH Technique
DWFNs and Coastal States
Economic and Social Aspects of their |nteractions
The Pre-EFJ Era
Fishery Resources Wholly within the EEZ
Fishery Resources Found both within the EEZ and the Adjacent High Seas
Social Considerations
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
A Model International Agreement on Fishing Access
I. Why a Model Agreement on Fishing Access?
II. Fishing Access Agreements: Towards Minimum Terms and Conditions
III. Contents of a Model Access Agreement
IV. How a Model International Fishing Access Agreement Could Be Created
References
Towards Rational Disciplines on Subsidies to the Fishery Sector
A Call for New International Rules and Mechanisms
Fishery Subsidies
Introduction
I. The Nature of the Problem
II. Existing Disciplines on Fishery Susbidies
III. A Call for the Negotiation of New International Rules and Mechanisms
References