Special Issue "The Path to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Juan José García del Hoyo
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Guest Editor
Department of Economics, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Interests: fishing economics; aquaculture; applied econometrics
Prof. Dr. Félix García Ordaz
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Guest Editor
Department of Economics, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Interests: fishing economics; aquaculture; applied econometrics
Prof. Dr. Ramón Jiménez Toribio
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Guest Editor
Department of Economics, University of Huelva, 21071 Huelva, Spain
Interests: fishing economics; aquaculture; applied econometrics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Sustainability presents a Special Issue on "The Path to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture". The Special Issue aims to provide new theoretical and empirical knowledge on business and/or sectoral policies, strategies, and responses which are aimed at improving alignment with sustainable development goals: protection of the marine environment, reduction in illegal unreported fishing, minimisation of carbon footprints, sustainable exploitation of resources, the activity of small-scale fishing and minimisation of organic and non-organic waste from the activity. Although other relevant topics related to the objectives of the monograph will also be considered, special consideration will be given to the following topics:

  • Modelling of fisheries subject to management systems based on total allowable catches (TACs), quotas, and individual transferable quotas (ITQs), and the economic impact of short- and medium-term measures on fleets, resources, and incomes.
  • Studies on the problem and quantification of catches of recreational fishing, unreported fishing, illegal fishing, as well as practices which are against sustainability objectives such as excessive incentives and their effects (overcapacity and overfishing).
  • Analysis of markets for fishery and aquaculture products, with special emphasis on the interrelationships between species subject to quotas and not subject to quotas in fisheries with multiple catches, and in fisheries shared by different fleets; effects on the income of fishermen.
  • Analysis of the processes for the development of sustainable aquaculture: renewable energy sources, environmental impact minimization, and climate change mitigation.
  • Articles aimed at the analysis of fishing capacity and its adjustment, as well as the effects of incentives on effort and fleet dynamics.
  • Evaluation of the economic effects of protected areas and fishing reserves on small-scale fisheries and coastal communities.
  • Studies aimed at the analysis of the socio-economic dimensions of the services of marine ecosystems and their resilience, both in supply, culture, regulation, and maintenance in relation to fishing, marine aquaculture, and fishing communities.

This Special Issue will benefit social scientists, administrators, fishermen, and other groups who are interested in achieving the objectives of sustainable development in fisheries and aquaculture.

Prof. Dr. Juan José García del Hoyo
Prof. Dr. Félix García Ordaz
Prof. Dr. Ramón Jiménez Toribio
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • economics of fishing
  • aquaculture
  • sustainable development goals
  • fisheries management
  • ITQ
  • shared resources
  • overcapacity
  • ecosystem services

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Investment and Decapitalization in the Fishing Industry: The Case of the Spanish Crustacean Freezer Trawler Fleet
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8760; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168760 - 05 Aug 2021
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The objective of this work is to estimate the capital stock invested in the Spanish freezer trawler fleet dedicated to the capture of crustaceans on the African coast, for the period from 1964 to 2019. The importance of having methods for the correct [...] Read more.
The objective of this work is to estimate the capital stock invested in the Spanish freezer trawler fleet dedicated to the capture of crustaceans on the African coast, for the period from 1964 to 2019. The importance of having methods for the correct measurement of the capital invested in a fishing fleet is to be able to express in monetary terms the excess catch capacity, which is a signal of overexploitation of a fishery, that is, the fleet operates at a level of effort or capacity higher than the minimum amount required to capture the desired quantity at the lowest possible cost. Following a methodology based on the permanent inventory method, we obtained a model that explains the construction value of a fishing vessel as a function of its technical characteristics. The market value in successive sales was estimated as a function of the construction value, the age of vessel and other variables. In this way, we estimated the value that the market assigns to the possible increases in individual fishing capacity and the decrease in value derived from the technical obsolescence of the vessels. Finally, we calculated the gross and net investment series and net capital stock. Full article
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