Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Solutions in European Fisheries Management (CEVIS)

CEVIS examines four new concepts in fisheries management: the use of participatory approaches to fisheries governance; rights-based regimes; effort-control regimes and decision-rule systems. CEVIS assesses these concepts in respect to four objectives: biological robustness; economic efficiency; the cost effectiveness of management activities; and social robustness.

The research begins with a close look at cases of innovative fisheries management in non-EU countries. Visits are made to four places outside the EU that have similar fisheries and have implemented the above four types of innovations. These places are Iceland, Alaska, Canada and New Zealand.

CEVIS has two final products. The first is an Innovation Evaluation Framework made up of indicators of inputs and outcomes in relation to the four general management objectives. This will be an aid to fisheries managers wishing to assess the suitability of possible changes in EU fisheries management practices. The second product is four European case studies that evaluate the potential regime-level innovations in European fisheries management. The four European test-cases includes one outside the EU, the Faeroe Islands, and three EU cases: the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Western Shelf.