Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Post-Agreement Bargaining in the Barents Sea Fisheries - Strategies for Coping with Overfishing Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Geir Hønneland Coordinator email Geir.Honneland@fni.no
Coordinator institution
FNI - Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway)
Institutions involved
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway) ,
Start year 2006 End year 2017 Funding (€) € NA Website https://www.fni.no/projects/post-agreement-bargaining-in-the-barents-sea-fisheries-strategies-for-coping-with-overfishing#project-project-fundings Summary The Barents Sea cod fishery is the single most important fisheries for Norway, both commercially and in terms of maintaining viable communities along the coast. Since 1976, these fisheries have been managed bilaterally by Norway and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation through the Joint Norwegian-Soviet/Russian Fisheries Commission. While generally considered to be an example of successful international collaboration, the management regime has met new challenges since the late 1990s: massive overfishing by Russian vessels, difficulties for Norwegian research vessels in getting access to the Russian economic zone, a tougher stance by the Russians in the Fishery Protection Zone around Svalbard, and pressure from the Russian side to set quotas far above precautionary reference points. Two of the most topical questions, as seen from the Norwegian side, are the following: (1) How do we make fishermen comply with regulations?; (2) How do we make the Russian party comply with its international obligations, including those concluded at the bilateral level with Norway? These questions resonate with social science theories on compliance at two levels: individuals' compliance with regulations and states' compliance with their international commitments. While tradition al perspectives view enforcement and other coercive measures as most important in bringing about compliance, critics emphasise the potential of various discursive measures, e.g. bargaining about compliance with target groups after a rule has been adopted (at the individual level) or a treaty concluded (at international level). While as yet largely unstudied, Norwegian authorities apply a range of discursive measures, or post-agreement bargaining, in their efforts to bring about compliance at individual and state level in the Barents Sea fisheries. The project will study the effects of these efforts and make the findings relevant for adjacent (law) and more distend (fish biology) fields of study.
Keywords
Fish;
Cod;
Fishery policy;
Fisheries management;
Exploitation;
Marine Region
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Barents Sea (27.I)
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