Concentration and Competition in the Fisheries Sector: Current Trends and Challenges for Sustainability and Human Well-Being
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 10051
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globalization is increasing the economic power of transnational corporations in relation to national governments, but the effects of this gradual shift in global fisheries are largely unknown. There is a need to better understand the dynamics of the capital of fishing companies because the capital behavior, actors and/or firms can significantly impact the fisheries sector around the world.
Several types of property rights regimes have been employed to alleviate the fisheries problem; these include individual transferable quotas (ITQs), territorial user rights fisheries (TURFs), community fishing rights, and harvesting rights. Of great interest are studies that focus on the influence of fishing rights on investment patterns in a fishery, particularly in the form of ITQs. This management instrument has received widespread attention among economists, as the theoretical work on the implications of introducing ITQs suggests greater efficiency than the command and control management approaches currently used in many fisheries.
Despite this substantial body of theoretical work, there are currently few empirical studies that primarily investigate investment in fisheries and the firm-level investment drivers in fisheries. This Special Issue goes beyond the state of the art by collecting scientific papers related but not limited to the following topics:
- Current situation concerning the ownership structure of fishing vessels and the concentration of vessels and quotas,
- Concentration of vessels, quotas, fishing rights and licenses,
- Characterizing local, regional or national notable transactions, and
- Financialization and the role of banks in the fisheries sector.
Prof. Dr. Sebastián Villasante
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- concentration
- competition
- fishing rights
- fisheries sector
- sustainability
- equity
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