Political Economy of Fisheries Notes

Fishery collapse is a global concern, affecting world food supply, economic prospects for fishing communities, and with plenty of spill-over effects for marine environments and endangered species. A growing set of policies are being developed to address this problem: catch quotas, gear restrictions, marine reserves, and community management.

However, systemic incentives...

• short-term
• souverty
• don't tell
• entrenched stakeholders
• mistrust of science
• stock uncertainty
• perverse policy incentives
• subsides: http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/press-releases/new-oceana-report-reveals-true-amount-of-eu-fishing-sector-subsidies-to-be-33-billion

This project aims to understand how cross-scale issues underlie the potential for institutional change.

1. Individual incentives lead to collective tragedy.
2. How do individual decision-making dynamics affect global decision-making?
3. How do global decision-making dynamics affect individual decision-making?

How do I test this? Want to observe one dynamic, and the response...

Ideas:

• How can cross-scale dynamics and definition-by-deliberation help solve the commons problem?

• How can new technology change fisheries?

Importance of Fisheries