"Modes of Regulation in the Common Fisheries Policy: A Moveable Feast?"

Ritchie, Ella. (2003) "Modes of Regulation in the Common Fisheries Policy: A Moveable Feast?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Nashville, TN. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper examines the extent to which soft law and soft policy instruments are used within the Common Fisheries Policy (CF) and considers whether it is useful as a concept for understanding evolving forms of regulation within the sector. The CFP is a fertile ground for the examination of the relationship between institutions, rules and actors. It is a multi-level policy with significant global, EU, national regional and local dimensions. There has been an enduring governing crisis in the sector within, in the 1990s, major crisis in nearly all EU fish stocks and wide-scale recognition of the failure of current policy instruments to deliver the desired policy outcomes of the CFP. In fisheries policy it is difficult to separate debates about forms of regulation from debates about forms of governance since, for fisheries regimes to be successful, the fishing industry needs to cooperate with the regime in place.

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