A Briefing: Fisheries policy outside the EU

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Publication Date September 2016
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Executive Summary:

+ Whatever trade arrangement the UK decides to adopt with the EU post-Brexit, the UK government will have authority over fisheries policy.

+ Under the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), after many years of stock decline, there has been a recent stabilisation and even increase in stocks. However, the CFP is not an effective way for managing fishing rights.

+ Other countries such as Iceland have more effective policies that lead both to sustainable management and also reduce conflict between different interests.

+ The UK should adopt a tradable quota share system whereby quotas are allocated as a share of the annual total allowable catch in perpetuity.

+ Such a system mirrors the way in which property rights on land encourage sustainable farming.

+ Under such a system the quota-holders have an incentive to agree the total allowable catch to maximise sustainability.

+ In-shore fisheries might be better managed in other ways with self-management often being more sustainable than government regulation.

+ Having determined the principles by which the system should operate, there are a number of practical difficulties that need to be addressed. These are important issues, but need not get in the way of the development of an effective and sustainable property-rights based system for allocating fishing rights

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Related Links
ESO: Background information: Brexit: impact across policy areas http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-impact-across-policy-areas/
ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/
Blog: UK in a Changing Europe, 22.11.16: Casting into the future of UK fisheries after Brexit http://ukandeu.ac.uk/casting-into-the-future-of-uk-fisheries-after-brexit/
UK: Parliament: House of Commons: Lbrary: Briefing Paper, No.CBP 7669 (21.06.17): Brexit: What next for UK fisheries? http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7669/CBP-7669.pdf

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