1. Fisheries and natural resources management
- Meaning of resource;
- The classification of natural resources;
- Natural resources and economic goods;
- The properties of economic goods (principles of rivalry and exclusion);
- Fish stock as a common good,
- Problems related to the exploitation of common goods (the "Tragedy of the Commons"),
2. Theoretical issues of fisheries production
- The specificities of fisheries as an economic activity;
- Productivity, management and sustainability of fisheries;
- Relations between fisheries and the environment;
- Environmental (external) functions of fisheries
3. Theory of production in fishing
- The production function;
- Technical inputs and fishing effort;
- Measurement of fishing effort
- Efficiency and economic capacity;
- Multi-specific fisheries.
- Production of small-scale fisheries
4. The bio-economic balance
- Production and biological growth;
- The sustainable yield curve;
- The technical optimum and the economic optimum (sustainable fisheries)
5. Fisheries policies
- Classification of measures for fisheries management
- Objectives and evolution of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP);
- The main axes of the CFP;
- Operational tools and measures of fisheries policy;
- Mediterranean fisheries policy;
- Regional fisheries policy.
6. Economic aspects of aquaculture and mariculture
- The relevance of aquaculture;
- Aquaculture in the world, in Europe and in Italy;
- The main economic issues related to the development of aquaculture
7. Fish and sea foods market
- Fish foods demand and supply;
- Mean productions in the Mediterranean sea;
- Fish foods supply-chain and retails of products from small-scale fisheries.