The aim of the specialist part is to provide the student with:
· solid understanding of the basic principles of a socially beneficial fisheries policy
· practical training in the design and implementation of such a policy.
At the end of this part of the course the student should be able to evaluate a given fisheries exploitation regime and roughly design and plan for the implementation of a successful fisheries policy
for given fishery.
The main topics are:
A. Background
1. Elements of social welfare and cost-benefit analysis. Definitions and measures of social welfare and economic progress. Dynamics of economic growth. Costs and benefits of projects. The price
system. True vs. false prices. Price corrections. Present values. Internal rates of return. Distribution (10 hours)
2. Fisheries and economic development: The role of
fisheries in national and regional economic development, forward and backward linkages, source of investment capital, source of taxation revenue, foreign exchange earnings. Education, know-how,
training of labour, generation of entrepreneurship etc. (10 hours)
B. Requirements and Options
1. What is needed for a successful fishery? Infrastructure, an appropriate fisheries management regime capital, manpower, know-how, market outlets and access, availability of inputs etc. (6
hours)
2. The fisheries management regime. Components and link. (2 hours)
3. Fisheries management systems. What are the options and the
properties of each. (10 hours)
4. Monitoring, control and surveillance. Requirements of the fisheries management systems. On land monitoring, at sea monitoring. Remote monitoring. Indirect monitoring. Enforcement of rules. Extent
and costs of monitoring. Links with fisheries judicial system. (6 hours)
5. Fisheries judicial system. Processes and sanctions. The appropriate
balance between sanctions and monitoring. (6 hours)
C. Formulation of a fisheries policy & the design of a fisheries project
1. Economic potential of given fish resources: Potential physical sustainable and dynamic yield; unit value of harvest, export value. Is it a promising project? (2 hours)
2. The ability of the private sector. Are supports (education, training, technical assistance, investment financing, grants, infrastructure development etc.) needed and justified? (2
hours)
3. Assessment of existing administrative and monitoring capacity. (2 hours)
4. The design of an appropriate fisheries management regime. (4 hours)
5. The required administrative and advisory capacity. Design and costs.(4 hours)
6. Assessment of overall benefits. (4 hours)
7. Project Analysis, Planning and management (6 hours)
- Essential structure of projects
- The translation of policies into projects
-Iteration between projects and policies: The optimal project
8. Project design: Cases exercises (12 hours)
D. A Fisheries project: Implementation and operation of a Fisheries policy
1. The Policy and the Project (2 hours)
2. Political and social support (2 hour)
3. Manpower, training and other inputs (2 hours)
4. Infrastructure (2 hours)
5. Project revision and modification (2 hours)
6. Ongoing functions: Data collection, issue of directives, enforcement of rules, system revisions. (4 hours)
8. Evaluation, ongoing and ex post (2 hours)
9. Case studies. Real, constructed. Presentations and discussions (14 hours)
