Objective
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a common regional management regime in the Irish Sea on the nephrops and whitefish fisheries and the coastal communities which derive part of their income from these fisheries. From an effective management regime, the rejuvenation of these two fisheries may be envisaged. Such a regime will necessarily impose costs and benefits which it is the purpose of the study to identify from the application of models developed in an earlier study and their synthesis into a single entity. It will be understood that a common management regime for the region may also result in redistribution of costs and benefits and that this redistribution may or may not be desirable. Another objective of the study will be to identify and if possible quantify these effects. From this it may be possible to encourage those seen as desirable and to provide countermeasures for those that are not.
The objectives therefore are:
1. To identify a management regime likely to be effective as a means of regional management of the Irish Sea,
2. To synthesise the existing bioeconomic models of the Irish Sea and to apply them in restricted forrn to the nephrops and whitefish fisheries,
3. To quantify the distribution and redistribution of costs and benefits, and
4. Using the Irish Sea nephrops and whitefish fisheries as an example, to show the benefits which can be obtained by restoring the rate of fishing from its present excessive level as nearly as possible to an optimal level.
The Irish Sea offers a number of advantages for this study. In particular, it comprises a reasonably discrete unit, isolated from other fisheries and fishing opportunities. In addition, there is a certain amount of information about the region already available, including earlier work. Further, there have been advances in material available, notably a Northern Ireland costs & earnings survey, a recent doctoral thesis, and work on the physical growth characteristics of nephrops. This study aims to develop socio-economic aspects of the Irish Sea fisheries. Previous work has been done in this area which quantified the potential benefits arising from a rehabilitation of the fishery but did not examine in detail the redistributive effects of a socio-economic nature, especially with regard to employment (Hillis et al 1995). Recognition is developing that regional management by authorities one step removed from national governments may be more effective in applying the necessary constraints on fishing activity for the returns to society to be optimised and the stock conserved, but the significance of redistributive effects will matter to the national governments which have to deal with the socio-economic effects.
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United Kingdom
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