The EU landing obligation and European small-scale fisheries: What are the odds for success?

• Published in: Marine Policy
• Main Authors: Veiga, Pedro, Pita, Cristina, Rangel, Mafalda, Gonçalves, Jorge M.S., Campos, Aida, Fernandes, Paul G., Sala, Antonello, Virgili, Massimo, Lucchetti, Alessandro, Brčić, Jure, Villasante, Sebastian, Ballesteros, Marta, Chapela, Rosa, Santiago, José L., Agnarsson, Sveinn, Ögmundarson, Ólafur, Erzini, Karim
• Other Authors: European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Bycatch reduction; Common Fisheries Policy; Discard ban; Europe; Small-scale fisheries; Faroe Islands; Norway; The Landing; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/355888; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.11.008; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84947983559

A landing obligation was formally implemented in the European Union (EU) for the first time, as part of the recent reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Given the reasonable success of the landing obligation in some countries such as the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Norway, this policy is se...