EU漁船隊の近代化とエネルギー転換における持続可能な漁業の確保方法

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🔬研究者:Provides empirical analysis on the trade-off between fleet modernization and overcapacity in fisheries.

🏢実務担当者:Offers insights for fishing industry stakeholders on navigating capacity regulations while pursuing energy transition.

🏛政策担当者:Informs EU and national policymakers on the need for robust capacity metrics to prevent overfishing during fleet renewal.

The European Union’s (EU) fishing fleet has struggled with overcapacity, which has led to overexploitation of fish stocks. Since the 2013 Common Fishery Policy (CFP) last reform, efforts to promote sustainable fisheries have resulted in healthier fish stocks and a reduction in fleet size. While EU fleets now comply with capacity limits, challenges remain, threatening sustainability and the fishing sector’s viability. Despite improvements since the reform, economic disparities and imbalances in fish resources persist. By collating expert knowledge and data analyses, this study examines if facing future challenges, such as energy transition and attracting young fishers, may require extra capacity to accommodate more efficient or alternative engines for greener fuels, and improve working conditions, in the context where country-specific capacity ceilings limiting the fishing capacity are not reached. However, current policies may limit short-term profitability of the current active fleet. At the same time, the EU fleet policy should ensure that fleet renewal, modernization, and profitability improvements, which may require additional capacity or not, alongside improved efficiency over time, do not result in an improved ability to catch fish that would exacerbate fleet imbalances, create overcapacity, or put more pressure on exploited stocks. Our findings indicate that the current EU fleet imbalance will likely worsen whenever capacity is reused, or extra capacity is granted without controlling for the ability to catch fish, and without monitoring for the right metrics beside fleet or vessels kW and GT. It appears optimistic to assume that reactivating unused fishing capacity or granting extra fishing capacity will not be used to catch even more fish. The findings aim to inform recommendations for improvement and to find applicable solutions within the EU framework, while addressing ongoing challenges in EU fisheries without compromising the fleet’s capacity to catch fish in ways that do not contribute to ...

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