OECD Review of Fisheries 2022
The OECD Review of Fisheries 2022 brings together and analyses data on fisheries management and support policies to inform decision makers and help foster sustainable and resilient fisheries that can provide jobs, food, and livelihoods for future generations. The Review assesses the health and productivity of fish stocks and explores how they can be better managed. It updates and analyses the OECD Fisheries Support Estimate (FSE), the most comprehensive and detailed collection of country-level data on governments support to fisheries, covering both subsidies and services to the sector in OECD countries and other major fishing nations. These support measures are categorised according to the risks of encouraging unsustainable fishing they can pose in the absence of effective fisheries management. Lastly, the Review suggests policy options to eliminate support to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and investigates how to avoid ocean plastic pollution from ghost fishing gear.
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Managing fisheries
The health and productivity of fish stocks are key determinants of fisheries performance. Sustainably managing fish stocks is necessary to achieve the socio-economic objectives governments and stakeholders have for fisheries. This chapter analyses the health and productivity of assessed fish stocks in 32 countries and economies and discusses how commercially important fisheries are managed. It provides a reliable approximation of the status of fish stocks at the global level and detailed information at the country level, to better target management action. The chapter closes with a special focus on how to address ghost fishing gear, that is gear lost, abandoned, or otherwise discarded at sea, which can have a significant detrimental impact on fish stock health and the ocean more generally.
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