CEVIS took a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing potential innovations for EU fishery management regimes with respect to four general management objectives:
- Biological robustness
- Economic efficiency
- The cost-effectiveness of management activities
- Social robustness, understood as both the legal conformity and general acceptability of the innovations
The project focused on global case-studies exemplifying four management systems that were receiving the most attention in current discussions: participatory approaches to fisheries governance, rights-based regimes, effort-control regimes, decision-rule systems.
