Tragic Remedies: A Century of Failed Fishery Policy on California's Sacramento River

Determination of fish landing price is important, as the same contributes to the structure, conduct and performance of the fish market in Lake Victoria. Determination of relevant landing price is a gap to console between fishermen, agents (middlemen), processors and the government. The main objective of this study was therefore to examine fish price determination. Specifically, to examine the methods for fish price determination and analyse factors that affect fish landing price in Lake Victoria, a cross-sectional design was employed, and 300 respondents were randomly selected from two district councils, namely, Sengerema and Buchosa. Both qualitative and quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. Findings show that landing price is determined through formal negotiation with processors, consultation with other traders, informal negotiation with buyers and Beach Management Unit (BMU). The study concluded that these are the common methods used to determine landing prices. Also, distance from fishing to onshore landing centres, market information channels, age and experiences of the fishermen are the factors significantly found affecting landing price. It is recommended that the mechanism for setting up fishery price, fish market structure, fishery information and the formation of fishery regulatory body needs fishery policy and sector reforms that mark the determination of fish landing price.

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Does Capacity Analysis Help us Meet Fishery Policy and Management Objectives?

Marine Resource Economics ◽

10.1086/mre.22.1.42629537 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 77-77

Author(s):

Cathy A. Roheim

Keyword(s):

Capacity Analysis ◽

Management Objectives ◽

Fishery Policy

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Bioinformatics Approach to Mitigate Mislabeling in EU Seafood Market and Protect Consumer Health

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18147497 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (14) ◽

pp. 7497

Author(s):

Gabriella Vindigni ◽

Alfredo Pulvirenti ◽

Salvatore Alaimo ◽

Clara Monaco ◽

Daniela Spina ◽

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Keyword(s):

Dna Barcoding ◽

Value Chain ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Molecular Techniques ◽

Consumer Information ◽

Fish Market ◽

Fishery Policy ◽

Fisheries Policy ◽

Consumer Interests ◽

Zoonotic Parasites

Fisheries products are some of the most traded commodities world-wide and the potential for fraud is a serious concern. Fish fraud represents a threat to human health and poses serious concerns due to the consumption of toxins, highly allergenic species, contaminates or zoonotic parasites, which may be present in substituted fish. The substitution of more expensive fish by cheaper species, with similar morphological characteristics but different origins, reflects the need for greater transparency and traceability upon which which the security of the entire seafood value-chain depends. Even though EU regulations have made significant progress in consumer information by stringent labelling requirements, fraud is still widespread. Many molecular techniques such as DNA barcoding provide valuable support to enhance the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) in the protection of consumer interests by unequivocally detecting any kind of fraud. This paper aims to highlight both the engagement of EU fishery policy and the opportunity offered by new biotechnology instruments to mitigate the growing fraud in the globalized fish market and to enforce the food security system to protect consumers’ health. In this paper, after a presentation of EU rules on fish labeling and a general overview on the current state of the global fish market, we discuss the public health implications and the opportunities offered by several techniques based on genetics, reporting a case study to show the efficacy of the DNA barcoding methodology in assessing fish traceability and identification, comparing different species of the Epinephelus genus, Mottled Grouper (Mycteroperca rubra) and Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus), often improperly sold with the commercial name of “grouper”.

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