OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
The central objective of the project is to develop a better understanding of the way in which fishermen respond to regulations. This includes their knowledge of the regulations which apply to them, their perceptions of the economic implications of regulations, normative and other 'psychic' responses to regulations (such as judgments about the 'rightness' of compliance and the perceived legitimacy of the regulations and of the regulatory authority), their perceptions of the attitudes of fellow fishermen to the regulations, and how all these factors affect their behaviour, in particular their compliance with regulations.

The basic approach of the project is economic and positive: the fundamental aim is to measure fishermen's responses to regulations and to undertake an econometric analysis of the results in order to derive empirical models of behaviour under regulation.