The Common Fisheries Policy: The Quest for Sustainability

Description:

Written by Ernesto Penas of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, this book provides a full understanding of the European Commission’s common fisheries policy (CFP), which is of major importance to all fisheries scientists and managers.

Commencing with introductory chapters which look at the history behind the CFP, its birth and enlargement, this excellent book continues with chapters covering the major aspects of the CFP including policies on conservation, fishing fleets, structure, control, and environment, the external sector, scientific advice, stakeholders and decision making. Further chapters consider the Mediterranean Sea, aquaculture and the reforms of the CFP. A concluding chapter looks at what’s next for the CFP.

Table of Contents:

1. Why the common fisheries policy is important
2. The origin of the CFP
3. EU enlargement and the CFP
4. The conservation policy
5. Fleet policy
6. Structural policy
7. The external dimension
8. The mediterranean specificity
9. Enforcing the CFP
10. The scientific advice for the CFP
11. Fisheries and the environment
12. The stakeholders
13. The governance of the CFP
14. Aquaculture
15. Reforming the CFP: 1992 and 2002
16. The CFP reform of 2013
17. What's next