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Cevenini, Fabio, Andrews, Barnaby, Muench, Angela, Lamb, Philip, Ferrini, Silvia and Hyder, Kieran 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-5679
(2023)
Assessing the welfare impacts of changes in recreational fisheries management: A modelling approach for European sea bass.
Marine Policy, 148.
ISSN 0308-597X
Abstract
Economic appraisal of the impacts of fisheries policies is a legal requirement in many global fisheries and is crucial for effective policy making. Some changes in costs and benefits attributable to policy can be assessed through impacts on markets, whilst others are more difficult, as markets may not exist. Analysis is needed to assess value generated by fisheries under different management regimes. The northern stock of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) has declined rapidly over the past decade leading to management of both the commercial and recreational sectors. Bag limits, closed seasons, and minimum sizes were introduced for recreational fishers, but the social impact of management measures has not been quantified. Here, we use sea bass to demonstrate a method for assessing the impact of management measures on recreational fisher welfare. Through combining stock assessments, individual catch data, and estimates of welfare from a recent choice experiment, differences in welfare under a range of regulatory scenarios were compared. Nine scenarios based on management implemented between 2014 and 2020 were tested. Highest welfare estimates were found with the lowest levels of restrictions and lowest estimates for a no-take fishery, which was driven by retained fish having a higher value than released fish. There was a difference of £ 22.03 million in estimated welfare generated by the recreational sector between these extremes, with the remaining scenarios amid those values. Our results highlight the need for policy makers to carefully consider management options that protect both fish stocks and the welfare of recreational fishers.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: Fabio Cevenini was funded by the Doctoral School of Social Science of the University of Trento , program in Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS). Fabio Cevenini also acknowledges support from the Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology of the National Research Council (CNR-IRBIM). Kieran Hyder, Barnaby Andrews, Philip Lamb, and Angela Muench were funded by UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra, FRD009, FRD052, MI001). Kieran Hyder was also supported or covered by funding from United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), One Ocean Hub (Grant Ref: NE/S008950/1). SF acknowledges funding by the Natural Environment Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council funded Sustainable Management of UK Marine Resources (SMMR) program [PI grant number NE/V01708X/1, University of East Anglia reference is NE/V016008/1]. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | european sea bass,fisheries management,integrated bioeconomic model,recreational fishing benefits,aquatic science,environmental science(all),economics and econometrics,management, monitoring, policy and law,law,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1104 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2023 03:20 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 17:34 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93769 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105408 |
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