Political overfishing: Social-economic drivers in TAC setting decisions
Authors
Voss, R. (Rüdiger); Hoffmann, J. (Julia); Llope, M. (Marcos); Schmidt, J.O. (Jörn O.); Möllmann, C. (Christian); Quaas, M. F. (Martin F.)Date
2015-09-22Type
conference outputKeywords
GAMTAC setting
economic drivers
social drivers
interaction
decision making
fisheries
Abstract
Sustainable use of marine resources, as targeted by Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM), is a highly ranked policy goal. However, many marine fish stocks are still overused, challenging sustainability goals. Reasons for this policy failure are disputed and they might be manifold, including economic, institutional, and social drivers. We use Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to empirically determine and quantify the importance of interacting ecological, economic, and social drivers in a political decision making process, i.e. the setting of annual Total Allowable Catch (TAC) limits. GAMs allow non linear relationships between response and explanatory variables and due to their flexibility have successfully been applied to investigate ecosystem dynamics. Here, we use this modeling approach in a novel way to quantify social-economic-ecological feed-backs on policy decisions. European fisheries policy agreed in most cases to TACs higher than scientifically advised. We recorded this ...
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