FISHERIES ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Elective Course

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in AGRO-ZOOTECHNICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Rural economy and evaluation

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MADAU Fabio Albino

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Students should have not been previously enrolled in any graduate level course.

AF code:

A000271

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Final oral examination and an intermediate test to evaluate the state of acquired skills will be carry out. . These modalities allow students to develop individual skills for better take advantage for work. courses.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course aims to give knowledge on economic features of fisheries and aquaculture and on management tools in the Mediterranean fisheries. Specifically students are expected to learn knowledge on theoretical issues at the basis of fisheries economics and on specificities that this sector shows regarding fish stocks and environmental resources management. Furthermore the course will allow students to have a framework on typological classification of fisheries and on common fisheries policy, putting particular attention on Mediterranean small-scale sector. Finally, information of fish foods market issues will give to the students in order to allow us to be knowledge on fish food supply-chain dynamics.
Acquisition of the above mentioned knowledge allows students to have adequate theoretical and methodological tools for dealing with upgraded graduate courses and to increase their own professional skills.

Contents

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.

Recommended Bibliography

- Turner R.K., Pearce D.W., Bateman I. (2003): Economia ambientale, Bologne, Il Mulino;
- Spagnolo M. (2006): Elementi di economia e gestione della pesca, Franco Angeli, Milan;
- Idda L. (a cura di). (2006): Pesca e acquacoltura in Sardegna: competitività, sostenibilità, politiche, strategie, Tipografia Editrice Giovanni Gallizzi, Sassari;
- Other course materials provided by the teacher

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course is entirely based on lectures by part of the teacher. However a visit to an aquaculture farm will be paid and two thematic seminars – on Common Fisheries Policy issues and on aquaculture perspectives in the Mediterranean - will be done. The seminars (4 hours on the whole) will be carried out by experts individuated in the scientific, entrepreneurial and institutional fields. According to the number of students, case study analyses can be implemented by carrying on group activities (e.g., seminars) in order to increase knowledge interpretation skills, critical ability, and communication skills.

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