The OECD Handbook for Fisheries Managers: Principles and Practice for Policy Design

The Fisheries Manager's Handbook is a compilation of OECD work designed to aid policy makers develop and implement good policies and management tools in fisheries. Drawing upon years of OECD research, it demonstrates how an open policy design process with clear objectives, using market-based instruments and focussed on effective stock management can benefit all those involved in or concerned about the fisheries sector. Of interest not only to policy makers, it will provides a useful guide to NGOs and other interested parties on the principles and processes of good policy design.

Contents:

Executive summary

Chapter 1. Introduction to fisheries management
- Setting policy objectives
- Targeting and tailoring policies
- Measuring progress
- Setting priorities and policies
- The benefits of fisheries management

Chapter 2. The economics of fisheries management
- The problem of shared resources
- Entry and exit
- Rents and capitalisation
- Maximising social welfare
- Trading and efficiency
- Flexible fisheries

Chapter 3. Dealing with capacity issues in fisheries
- Overcapacity vs. adjustment
- Overcapacity and the management system
- Design and implementation of decommissioning schemes: Issues and best practices
- Political economy

Chapter 4. Market mechanisms to manage fisheries
- Fisheries management mechanisms: Objectives and methods
- The benefits of market mechanisms
- Property rights
- Designing and choosing market mechanisms
- Implementing market mechanisms: Tracks to follow

Chapter 5. Rebuilding fisheries
- The steps to rebuilding
- Rebuilding: How fast?
- Rebuilding instruments

Chapter 6. The human dimension of fisheries reform
- Demographics, structural change and reform
- Human dimensions and political economy of reform
- Addressing the human dimensions of reform

Chapter 7. Policy coherence for development
- Policy coherence for development: Understanding policy spill-overs
- Links between fisheries and development

Chapter 8. Fisheries managers’ response to private certification
- Approaches to and objectives of private certification
- Possible responses by fisheries managers
- Policy coherence for development and private certification

Glossary

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