Potential Economic Consequences of the Landing Obligation

• Main Authors: Mercado-Carmona, J.M. (Jesús Mariano), Gómez-Jakobsen, F.J. (Francisco José), Valcárcel-Pérez, N. (Nerea), Yebra, L. (Lidia), Salles, S. (Soluna)
• Other Authors: Uhlmann, S.S. (Sebastian S.), Ulrich-Rescan, C. (Clara), Kennelly, Steven J.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer, Cham 2019
• Subjects: Costs and earnings; Discards; Economic repercussions; Fisheries management; Fleet adjustment; The Landing; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/12732; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-03308-8_6.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03308-8_6

To assess the likely economic outcomes to fishing fleets of the Landing Obligation (LO), bioeconomic models covering seven European fisheries, ranging from the North East Atlantic to the Mediterranean, have been applied to estimate the economic performance of fleets before and after implementing the...