Term:
Deep-sea fish stock
Definition:
Fisheries which are mostly open access or regulated under schemes which, in practice, tend notto reduce the incentives to increase effort when subsidies are provided to the industry (depending on the effectiveness of enforcement). The high initial catches associated with deep-sea fisheries mean that the effect of subsidies will be to further increase profits in the short term and may accelerate the process of new entry to the fishery.
Domain:
Fishery
Source:
Subsidies and deep-sea fisheries management: policy issues and challenges, OECD.