Opportunities and challenges to fisheries policy in the Philippines today

Issue Date

6-2020

Abstract

A framework on the structure and dynamics of fisheries management is described. It is used to identify four opportunities and two challenges for fisheries policy in the Philippines if it were to rationally harness fisheries as fulcrum for sustainable food and protein security in the country in the next 10-30 years. This is, when climate conditions in the country (and in the world) may reach ireversible changes per some reports. Four specific recommendations on the focusing policies are presented if the Philippines were to achieve a more environmentally-anchored (“greener”) management of fisheries: reconciling and balancing public and private sector interests over fisheries; providing incentives for “green investments” on fisheries; ensuring the economic and ecological sustainability of culture fisheries as a pressure-easing complement to capture fisheries, and rationalizing land use to improve the viability of culture fisheries.

Source or Periodical Title

Journal of Environmental Science and Management

ISSN

0119-1144

Volume

23

Issue

1

Page

111-126

Document Type

Article

Frequency

semi-annually

Physical Description

graph, tables

Language

English

Subject

fisheries policies, fisheries management, opportunities, capture-culture fisheries complementation, green investment, climate resilience

Digital Copy

https://jesam.sesam.uplb.edu.ph/index.php

En – AGROVOC descriptors

FISHES; CAPTURE-BASED ACQUACULTURE; FISHERY POLICIES; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; CAPTURE FISHERY ECONOMICS

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