How Can Economic Policies Help Avoid Future Collapses in the World Fisheries?

I will explore how economics can contribute to the
conservation and sustainable management of marine and coastal resources
through time. To do this, I will identify a number of positive and
negative economic incentives and demonstrate how they can be used to
help avoid future collapses in world fisheries. An example of negative
economic incentive with respect to conservation and sustainable
management are harmful fisheries subsidies that lead to overcapacity and
overfishing. A positive economic incentive is the shared benefits from
managing shared stocks cooperatively to avoid overfishing. I will
explore these and other economic incentives that have an impact on our
ability to avoid future fisheries collapses in this talk.