A socio-economic sustainability indicator for the Basque tropical tuna purse-seine fleet with a FAD fishing strategy

[EN] This article applies the Rapfish methodology, a non-parametric and multi-disciplinary technique, with the objective of defining and evaluating a Sustainability Index of the Basque purse-seine fleet, fishing tropical tuna in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The estimated Sustainability Index for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Murillas-Maza, Arantza, Moreno, Gala, Murua, Jefferson
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/117964
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/117964
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cerqueros
FAD
Rapfish
Sostenibilidad
Túnidos tropicales
Purse-seiners
Sustainability
Tropical tuna stocks
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Sumario:[EN] This article applies the Rapfish methodology, a non-parametric and multi-disciplinary technique, with the objective of defining and evaluating a Sustainability Index of the Basque purse-seine fleet, fishing tropical tuna in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The estimated Sustainability Index for the fleet fishing in the Indian Ocean is above a critical sustainability threshold and improves between 1998 and 2009. The opposite occurs for the fleet in the Atlantic Ocean. The influence of the growing use of Fish Aggregating Devices on the behaviour of fishers in the Indian Ocean is also analysed.