Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ; Unité Mixte de Recherche 212 Ecosystèmes Marins Exploités, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Sète, France.
PLoS One. 2013 Nov 27;8(11):e79899. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079899. eCollection 2013.
The imperative to increase seafood supply while dealing with its overfished local stocks has pushed the European Union (EU) and its Member States to fish in the Exclusive Economic Zones of other countries through various types of fishing agreements for decades. Although European public fishing agreements are commented on regularly and considered to be transparent, this is the first global and historical study on the fee regime that governs them. We find that the EU has subsidized these agreements at an average of 75% of their cost (financial contribution agreed upon in the agreements), while private European business interests paid the equivalent of 1.5% of the value of the fish that was eventually landed. This raises questions of fisheries benefit-sharing and resource-use equity that the EU has the potential to address during the nearly completed reform of its Common Fisheries Policy.
为了增加海鲜供应，同时应对当地鱼类资源过度捕捞的问题，欧盟及其成员国几十年来一直通过各种类型的渔业协定，在其他国家的专属经济区进行捕捞。尽管欧洲的公共捕鱼协定经常受到评论，并被认为是透明的，但这是首次对管理这些协定的费用制度进行的全球性和历史性研究。我们发现，欧盟对这些协定的补贴平均达到其成本的 75%（协议中商定的财政捐款），而欧洲私营企业的利益仅相当于最终上岸的鱼类价值的 1.5%。这引发了渔业利益共享和资源利用公平性的问题，欧盟有可能在其共同渔业政策的改革中解决这些问题。
