Reducing fishing capacity: best practices for decommissioning schemes

Too many fishing vessels chasing too few fish is a persistent problem in many countries.

To address this, governments often turn to vessel decommissioning schemes as a means of adjusting fishing capacity to match available fish resources.

This report presents a set of best practice guidelines on the design and implementation of decommissioning schemes.

By drawing on case studies of decommissioning schemes from OECD and non-OECD countries, it provides policy makers and fisheries managers with detailed analysis of the economic issues surrounding decommissioning schemes.