Evaluation of New Zealand’s QMS System

Abstract

"The last decades have witnessed the emergence of a new thinking in fisheries management which seeks to counteract and/or prevent the deleterious outcomes of traditional fisheries management based on TACs and command and control (C & C) management. A variety of systems being referred to as innovations to management that include participation of stakeholders, right based management, harvest control rules (HCR) and effort based management, have been implemented all over the world and are continually evolving. The objective of CEVIS’s WP3 is to gather information on fisheries management regimes in four developed regions where innovations have been implemented in order to begin the process of evaluating their suitability for the EU fisheries management system. These regions are Alaska, Canada, Iceland and New Zealand."