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Belgium |
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Ministry of Small Enterprises, Traders and Agriculture
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Cyprus |
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Czech Republic |
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Denmark |
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Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (Fødevareministeriet)
Literature on-line
Important Factors Influencing Rule Compliance in Danish Fisheries
Paper by Jesper Raakjaer Nielsen from the IIFET 2000 Conference.
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Estonia |
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Ministry of the Environment
Information on Estonian environmental policy and law, containing information on relevant
(including fisheries and marine pollution) conventions.
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Faroe Islands |
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Food
and Environmental Institute
Controlling and authorizing body in matters concerning food and the environment.
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Finland |
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Ma- ja Metsätalousministeriö (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry)
Riista - ja kalataloudentutkimuslaitos (Game and Fisheries Research Institute)
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France |
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Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries)
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Germany |
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Ministry for Food, Agriculture
and Forestry
Home page of the Ministry responsible for fisheries.
Federal Research Centre for Fisheries
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Greece |
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Ministry of Agriculture
In Greek and English although the English part is currently under construction.
National Centre for Marine
Research
Information on Greek marine issues; part of the Ministry of
Development.
Ministry for the
Environment
English part under construction.
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Hungary |
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Iceland |
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Close to the sea (Ministry of Fisheries)
Directorate of Fisheries Homepage
State of Marine Stocks in Icelandic Waters 1994/95, Fisheries Prospects 1995/96
Literature on-line
Individual Transferable Quotas in Iceland
Regional Impact of the ITQ System in Iceland
Two papers from Jones and Walker (eds.), Fish or Cut Bait!: The Case for Individual Transferable Quotas in the Salmon Fishery of British Columbia.Changing the Rules for Regulation of Icelandic Fisheries
Paper by Thorolfur Matthiasson from the IIFET 2000 Conference.The Icelandic Fishing Industry: A Descriptive Account (in Word97 format)
Paper by Birgir Runolfsson presented at the Symposium on the Efficiency of North Atlantic Fisheries, Reykjavik, 1997.
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Ireland |
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Department
of the Marine and Natural Resources
Basic information site which includes a useful Press Releases section.
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Italy |
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Ministerio per le
Politiche Agricole (Ministry of Agricultural Policies) (in Italian)
Includes information on Fisheries
and Aquaculture.
Literature on-line
The Implementation of an Italian Network of Marine Protected Areas: Rights-Based Strategies for Coastal Fisheries Management
Paper by F. Andaloro and L. Tunesi from the FishRights '99 Conference (published in FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 404).
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Latvia |
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Baltic Fishery
Information Ltd
A company which produces a range of information on the fisheries of Latvia, including a
brief list of relevant legislation.
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Lithuania |
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Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry
Responsible for fisheries, but only contains basic information.
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Malta |
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Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries
Includes a link to a large archive of press releases from the
Department of Information, but these are not organized by subject area.
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Netherlands |
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Ministry of Agriculture Nature Management and Fisheries
Netherlands Institute for the Law of
the Sea
Part of Utrecht University - provides various information on Dutch law of the sea policy,
including an informative newsletter.
Literature on-line
Development of Property Rights-based Fisheries Management in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: a Comparison
Paper by G. Valatin from the FishRights '99 Conference (published in FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 404).
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Norway |
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Ministry of
Fisheries
Provides only basic information in English. More detail, including fisheries
regulations are available in
Norwegian.
Lovdata
Searchable database of Norwegian
legislation (in Norwegian only).
Official
Documentation and Information in Norway
An often useful site providing press releases and other documentation in Norwegian and,
partly, in English. Although not limited to fisheries, there is often information relating
to fisheries available.
Norway's Fishing
Industry
A brief description of the industry and its management from ODIN, the Official Documentation and
Information in Norway site.
Sustainable
Management
Another document on the ODIN site,
outlining concepts of sustainable management of commercial fish stocks.
Literature on-line
The Norwegian Fisheries: An Unregulated Common Property Resource in Transition by the Introduction of Quotas, Closed Access and the Industry’s User-right Perception
Paper by J. H. Williams and S. Hammer from the FishRights '99 Conference (published in FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 404).The Missing T: Path-Dependency within an Individual Vessel Quota System - The Case of Norwegian Cod Fisheries
Paper by B. Hersoug, P. Holm and S.A. Rånes from the FishRights '99 Conference (published in FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 404).
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Poland |
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Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development
There is a page for the Department
of Fisheries, but it does not as yet contain any information.
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources
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Portugal |
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Ministerio da Agricultura, do Desenvolvimento Rural e das Pescas (in Portuguese)
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Pescas (Fisheries) |
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Slovakia |
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Slovenia |
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Spain |
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Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food (in Spanish)
Contains a variety of information although much of the information on fisheries
is not very detailed. Some useful information is also contained on some of the
sites of the regional fisheries departments (all in Spanish):
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Andalusia |
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Canary Islands |
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Catalonia |
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Basque Country (Institute of Fishing and Nutrition Technology) |
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Galicia |
www.nautigalia.com/legislacion
Instituto Español de Oceanografia
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Sweden |
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Information Rosenbad
Home page of the Swedish Government website.
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The Ministry of
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Ukraine |
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United Kingdom |
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Environment Agency (England & Wales)
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Falkland Island
Conservation Management Zone
Various documents relating to the FICZ and a
summary,
in the OceanLaw miscellaneous documents section.
Literature on-line
Development of Property Rights-based Fisheries Management in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands: a Comparison
Paper by G. Valatin from the FishRights '99 Conference (published in FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 404).UK Fisheries Management - The Shetland Experience
Paper by John Goodlad from the IIFET 2000 Conference.
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