Management Recommendation 1 for each case study

Abstract

This document serves as the first proposal for management recommendations (MR1) for each of the FarFish case studies. MRs are formal arrangements between a management authority and the operators in the respective case studies. It specifies the partners in the fishery and their respective roles, the agreed objectives for the fishery, the management rules and regulations that apply, and provides other relevant details about the fishery. This approach is based on the adaptive management approach Responsive Fisheries Management System (RFMS), which is results based and attempts to reduce micromanagement by involving stakeholders and increase the degree of co-management by delegating management responsibilities to resource users. According to this approach, the formal responsibility for developing the MRs is largely delegated to the resource users e.g. EU fishing fleet. This report (Deliverable 4.3) is a collation of six “stand-alone” MRs i.e. for each of the FarFish case studies. They are all developed according to the same guidelines and are therefore with the same structure, which means that there is significant repetition between each MR.