Towards Sustainability: A Framework for Evaluating Portuguese Small-Scale Fisheries
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Data Collection for Each Dimension’s Indicator
2.2. Data Limitations
3. Results
3.1. Economic Dimension
3.2. Social Dimension
3.3. Environmental Dimension
3.4. Governance Dimension
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimension | Indicator | Unit of Measure | PT Data Availability |
---|---|---|---|
Economy | Composition of the national fishing fleet by segment | Nº, GT, kW | Complete |
Gross Value Added (GVA) of the national fishing sector | EUR | Incomplete | |
Revenue from each fishing fleet | EUR | Incomplete | |
Small-scale fishery production | EUR, Kg | Incomplete | |
Fisheries commercial balance | EUR | Complete | |
Price paid to fishers by DOCAPESCA * in first sale | EUR | Complete | |
Fishers’ average annual operational costs | EUR | Absent | |
Fishers’ average annual profits | EUR | Absent | |
Social | Per capita consumption of fish | Kg | Complete |
Registered fishers | Nº | Complete | |
Information on gender | Nº | Absent | |
Registered fishers by age group | Nº | Complete | |
Registered fishers by fleet | Nº | Complete | |
Direct jobs in the fishing industry | Nº | Complete | |
Incentives for young people to join the fishing industry | Nº | Absent | |
Fishers’ household dependency on their catches | Yes/No | Absent | |
Reported accidents | Nº | Complete | |
Environment | Stock assessment on target-species | Yes/No | Complete |
Stocks exploited at ‘Maximum Sustainable Yield’ levels | Nº | Complete | |
CO2 emissions from fishing vessels | Kg CO2-eq | Incomplete | |
Fuel use efficiency in fishing vessels | L of fuel/ton of fish landed | Incomplete | |
Use of selective fishing gears | Yes/No | Incomplete | |
Use of non-destructive fishing gears | Yes/No | Incomplete | |
Direct effect of fishing gear on ecosystem | qualitative | Incomplete | |
Direct effect of fishing gear on non-target species (accidental catches) | Nº | Incomplete | |
Discard rate | Nº, % | Incomplete | |
Waste generated by fishing gear | qualitative | Incomplete | |
Fishing vessels equipped with electronic positioning | Yes/No | Complete | |
Fishing vessels equipped with catch reporting device | Yes/No | Complete | |
Governance | Workshop sessions about fisheries sustainability | % of attendance | Incomplete |
Fishers’ local ecological knowledge | qualitative | Incomplete | |
Policies addressing climate change adaptation in fisheries management | qualitative | Absent | |
Management plans | qualitative | Complete | |
Quota system | Yes/No | Complete | |
National plan of action for illegal, unregulated, and unreported landings | Yes/No | Absent | |
Subsidies/public funds allocated to SSFs | EUR | Incomplete | |
Sustainability label or certificate for fishery products | Yes/No | Complete |
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Apresentação, S.; Rangel, M.; Cristas, A. Towards Sustainability: A Framework for Evaluating Portuguese Small-Scale Fisheries. Sustainability 2024, 16, 3174. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083174
Apresentação S, Rangel M, Cristas A. Towards Sustainability: A Framework for Evaluating Portuguese Small-Scale Fisheries. Sustainability. 2024; 16(8):3174. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083174
Chicago/Turabian StyleApresentação, Sara, Mafalda Rangel, and Assunção Cristas. 2024. "Towards Sustainability: A Framework for Evaluating Portuguese Small-Scale Fisheries" Sustainability 16, no. 8: 3174. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083174