CAFÉ aimed to carry out a comprehensive study of capacity and effort metrics and model their relationships to fishing mortality, and the economic drivers for capacity development. The project had six main objectives:
- Review the validity of measurements of fishing
- capacity and effort
- Compile a database of capacity, effort and mortality information
- Identify appropriate measurements for empirical modelling of these factors
- Identify the factors that drive change in the capacity of the case study fisheries over time
- Determine important economic and biological factors
- Examine the effect of applying the models
