ÖFSE was commissioned by the BOKU to undertake an impact assessment of the "Education and Research Hub for the Sustainable Management of Aquatic Ecosystems in Eastern Africa (AQUAHUB)" project. The assessment was supposed to cover the whole project period from 1975 to 2021, when AQUAHUB was...

Introduction to the Application of Game Theory in Fisheries Management -- Basic concepts in game theory -- Introduction to Non-cooperative Fisheries Games -- Two-Player Cooperative Games -- Cooperative Games in Fisheries with more than two Players -- Non-cooperative Coalition Formation Games in...

Single-stock management dominates the international regulation of marine fisheries. Indeed, the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) rubric is used in 10 of 16 marine regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs). Early on, MSY was the best, and often only, scientific benchmark available. Now,...

Advice by fisheries scientists to reduce catches or effort is often not fully implemented and efforts to increase impact of advice have often failed. Fisheries scientists rarely discuss the potential contribution of economic instruments to improving the impact of science advice. This paper...