This project combines the efforts of a large group of scientists with the final aim of delivering a Management Plan for the Portuguese purse-seiner fishery. The main task to be developed by Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center is to develop a bioeconomic model for this fleet. By doing this project aims at contributing to further integrate economics into fishery policy advice. In particular, the bioeconomic model will be used to derive harvest control rules that endogenously captures economics aspects while using a population model framework that is the basis of most fish stock assessments and fishery management plans. Building upon the project’s results, the bioeconomic model will be extended to account for interactions between species and environmental impacts on targeted fish populations. By doing so, we aim also at contributing to foster the use of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management.
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