SOCIOEC Project Hosts Special Session at the European Association of Fisheries Economists Conference
15 May 2013
Austria
Six speakers presented the current status of the SOCIOEC project and its main results, methodologies and objectives. The session was entitled, SOCIOEC: Socio-economic Assessment of Management Measures on the New Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) - First Results and Upcoming Research and the speakers were Ralf Dӧring (SOCIOEC coordinator, Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries - Thünen-SF), Leyre Goti (Thünen-SF); Mike Fitzpatrick (National University of Ireland, Galway - NUIG); Stephen Hynes (NUIG); Raul Prellezo (AZTI-Tecnalia); and Peder Andersen (University of Copenhagen - UCPH).
Leyre Goti, SOCIOEC project officer, said: “This is the only EAFE conference that will take place during the lifetime of the project, as EAFE holds conferences and workshops in alternate years. The conference is more open to a broad range of stakeholders than the workshops, and we have had the chance to involve not only scientists and industry and management representatives, but also EC representatives, NGOs and consultancy firms.”
EAFE is an independent association of economists working in fisheries, including catching, aquaculture and on-shore sectors in Europe. The objectives of EAFE are to promote cooperation in economic research in fisheries and aquaculture; to assist in the dissemination of information about fisheries economics among members, to undertake any activity deemed appropriate to further the understanding of fisheries economics and to serve as a channel of communication with other interested bodies.
Ralf Dӧring, the SOCIOEC project coordinator and chairman of the session, was very happy with the outcome: “The session went smoothly with good presentations and the opportunity to have a very fruitful discussion with the audience.”
SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary project bringing fisheries economists, social scientists and biologists together with industrial partners and other key stakeholders. It will develop potential new future measures to be introduced in order to achieve a more profitable and efficient fishing sector that provides sustainable employment, supports society’s aims, and contributes to societal well being.
Note for Editors
The Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries (Thünen-SF), Germany, is coordinating the SOCIOEC project. AquaTT is the project dissemination partner. SOCIOEC is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°289192.
The titles of the talks given at the EAFE session were as follows:
(i) Socio-Economic Effects of Management Measures of the Future CFP – Overview on this European FP7 Project (Ralf Dӧring)
(ii) Clarifying the Overarching Principles of the CFP – First Results of SOCIOEC (Leyre Goti)
(iii) Methodological Background of Analysing the Incentive Structures of Fisheries Management Measures (Leyre Goti on behalf of Birgit de Vos)
(iv) A Choice Experiment of Fishermen’s Preferences for Future Management Options within the CFP (Mike Fitzpatrick)
(v) Modelling the Impact on Spatial Choice of Fishing Ground Closures in the Celtic Sea on Irish Demersal Otter Trawlers: A Random Parameters Logit Site Choice Using VMS Data (Stephen Hynes)
(vi) Basque fisheries: Management Incentives in the Inshore and Offshore Sectors (Raul Prellezo)
(vii) The Role of Economics in Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (Peder Andersen)
Speaker Profiles:
Dr Ralf Dӧring, SOCIOEC coordinator
Ralf is leading the fisheries economics unit at Thünen-SF and has worked mainly on the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management plans and the evaluation of long term gains compared to short term costs.
Leyre Goti, SOCIOEC project officer and SOCIOEC Baltic Sea Case Study leader
Leyre is a natural resources economist with a master’s in international economics from the Berlin School of Economics. Her research focuses on fisheries and other natural resources in relation to protected areas.
Birgit de Vos
Birgit has worked for the Wageningen University and Research Agricultural Economics Institute foundation (WUR-LEI) since 2002. She has carried out field and desk research on socio-economic issues and translations in fisheries in the Netherlands. She has recently finished her PhD research on fisheries governance and changing trust relationships between the main actors in the Dutch fishing industry.
Mike Fitzpatrick
Mike is a post-doctoral researcher at SEMRU, (Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit), in the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has almost 20 years' experience of working within both research and industry capacities on fisheries management problems. Mike is currently conducting a choice experiment to discern stakeholder preferences in order to select and refine management measures which are consistent with sustainability.
Stephen Hynes
Stephen is a Senior Researcher in the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit, NUIG. He has a background in applied environmental/natural resource economic research and extensive work experience in econometric modelling with particular emphasis on non-market valuation and spatial microsimulation modelling techniques.
Raul Prellezo
Raul is a Principal Researcher at AZTI-Tecnalia. He has more than 12 years' experience in economic research, specifically dealing with the socio-economic aspects of fisheries. He has conducted project research on the impacts that fishing gear and technology have on natural growth and optimal harvest rates.
Prof Peder Andersen
Peder has been working within fisheries economics and natural resource economics since 1979. He has previously been research director of the Danish Ministry of Fisheries, director of the Danish Economics Council and Head of the Economics Department, University of Copenhagen. His research areas are bioeconomics under uncertainty, and compliance, enforcement, incentives and regulation in fisheries management.
For press queries, please contact the project communications officer:
Federico Cardona Pons, AquaTT (email: federico@aquatt.ie, Tel: +353 1 644 9008)
AquaTT staff members are available to respond to queries in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
Leyre Goti, SOCIOEC project officer, said: “This is the only EAFE conference that will take place during the lifetime of the project, as EAFE holds conferences and workshops in alternate years. The conference is more open to a broad range of stakeholders than the workshops, and we have had the chance to involve not only scientists and industry and management representatives, but also EC representatives, NGOs and consultancy firms.”
EAFE is an independent association of economists working in fisheries, including catching, aquaculture and on-shore sectors in Europe. The objectives of EAFE are to promote cooperation in economic research in fisheries and aquaculture; to assist in the dissemination of information about fisheries economics among members, to undertake any activity deemed appropriate to further the understanding of fisheries economics and to serve as a channel of communication with other interested bodies.
Ralf Dӧring, the SOCIOEC project coordinator and chairman of the session, was very happy with the outcome: “The session went smoothly with good presentations and the opportunity to have a very fruitful discussion with the audience.”
SOCIOEC is an interdisciplinary project bringing fisheries economists, social scientists and biologists together with industrial partners and other key stakeholders. It will develop potential new future measures to be introduced in order to achieve a more profitable and efficient fishing sector that provides sustainable employment, supports society’s aims, and contributes to societal well being.
Note for Editors
The Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries (Thünen-SF), Germany, is coordinating the SOCIOEC project. AquaTT is the project dissemination partner. SOCIOEC is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n°289192.
The titles of the talks given at the EAFE session were as follows:
(i) Socio-Economic Effects of Management Measures of the Future CFP – Overview on this European FP7 Project (Ralf Dӧring)
(ii) Clarifying the Overarching Principles of the CFP – First Results of SOCIOEC (Leyre Goti)
(iii) Methodological Background of Analysing the Incentive Structures of Fisheries Management Measures (Leyre Goti on behalf of Birgit de Vos)
(iv) A Choice Experiment of Fishermen’s Preferences for Future Management Options within the CFP (Mike Fitzpatrick)
(v) Modelling the Impact on Spatial Choice of Fishing Ground Closures in the Celtic Sea on Irish Demersal Otter Trawlers: A Random Parameters Logit Site Choice Using VMS Data (Stephen Hynes)
(vi) Basque fisheries: Management Incentives in the Inshore and Offshore Sectors (Raul Prellezo)
(vii) The Role of Economics in Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (Peder Andersen)
Speaker Profiles:
Dr Ralf Dӧring, SOCIOEC coordinator
Ralf is leading the fisheries economics unit at Thünen-SF and has worked mainly on the implementation of the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management plans and the evaluation of long term gains compared to short term costs.
Leyre Goti, SOCIOEC project officer and SOCIOEC Baltic Sea Case Study leader
Leyre is a natural resources economist with a master’s in international economics from the Berlin School of Economics. Her research focuses on fisheries and other natural resources in relation to protected areas.
Birgit de Vos
Birgit has worked for the Wageningen University and Research Agricultural Economics Institute foundation (WUR-LEI) since 2002. She has carried out field and desk research on socio-economic issues and translations in fisheries in the Netherlands. She has recently finished her PhD research on fisheries governance and changing trust relationships between the main actors in the Dutch fishing industry.
Mike Fitzpatrick
Mike is a post-doctoral researcher at SEMRU, (Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit), in the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has almost 20 years' experience of working within both research and industry capacities on fisheries management problems. Mike is currently conducting a choice experiment to discern stakeholder preferences in order to select and refine management measures which are consistent with sustainability.
Stephen Hynes
Stephen is a Senior Researcher in the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit, NUIG. He has a background in applied environmental/natural resource economic research and extensive work experience in econometric modelling with particular emphasis on non-market valuation and spatial microsimulation modelling techniques.
Raul Prellezo
Raul is a Principal Researcher at AZTI-Tecnalia. He has more than 12 years' experience in economic research, specifically dealing with the socio-economic aspects of fisheries. He has conducted project research on the impacts that fishing gear and technology have on natural growth and optimal harvest rates.
Prof Peder Andersen
Peder has been working within fisheries economics and natural resource economics since 1979. He has previously been research director of the Danish Ministry of Fisheries, director of the Danish Economics Council and Head of the Economics Department, University of Copenhagen. His research areas are bioeconomics under uncertainty, and compliance, enforcement, incentives and regulation in fisheries management.
For press queries, please contact the project communications officer:
Federico Cardona Pons, AquaTT (email: federico@aquatt.ie, Tel: +353 1 644 9008)
AquaTT staff members are available to respond to queries in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.