Socioeconomic Dimension of Fisheries

The syllabus of this course is reviewed every year, depending on the evolution of the
situation of socioeconomics of fisheries management:
1. The situation of the world fisheries resources
2. The socioeconomics dimension of fisheries in the world
3. The socioeconomics dimension of fisheries in Europe
4. The importance of small-scale fisheries
5. Importance of including the social dimension in fisheries management
6. Governance of fisheries and participation in the decision-making process
7. Gender dimension (women) in fisheries
8. Access rights in fisheries
9. The human dimension of marine protected areas.
10. Fisheries trade, seafood consumption, the sustainable seafood movement,
labelling and certification
11. Marketing tool and initiatives to add-value to fishery products
12. Collecting and analysing socioeconomic fisheries data
The course is organized in 3 units:
The first unit (THE SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSION OF FISHERIES) includes themes 1 to 5 and
its objective is to expose students to social, economic and cultural aspects of the fishing
activity, and other activities related to fisheries.
The second unit (MAJOR CHALLENGES FOR THE HUMAN DIMENSION OF FISHERIES) covers
themes 6 to 11 and is dedicated to reviewing relevant current topics of importance to the
fishing industry, namely to the European fishing industry (but also global fishing industry)
where these topics are identified as the major social and economic challenges faced by the
industry.
The third unit (SOCIOECONOMIC DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS), includes theme 12 and
explores in detail the collection and analysis of socioeconomic information related to fisheries
(and other information related to the human dimension of fisheries), namely the collection
and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.