An Impact Assessment (IA) is a process aimed at structuring and supporting the development of policies. Besides the
fact that IA assumes different features when applied to different sectors, really it should help policy makers in
evaluating the contribution to the fisheries sustainability of new regulations. The recent improvements and
development around the IA methodologies go more and more toward the concept of a Sustainability Impact
Assessment (SIA). The evolution of IA in the fishery sector has followed the general and increasing need in having a
more and more integrated type of analysis, focusing on the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental,
economic and social). This paper synthesizes the methodology developed under the EU FP7 SOCIOEC project ,
whose main objective was the application of the most recent EU guidelines on IA to the current (and future) EU fishery
management. The result is an integrated approach taking into account the main pillars of sustainability and a strong
stakeholders’ involvement. A clear step-by-step procedure based on both qualitative and quantitative type of analyses
has been defined, the last step being the “rating” phase, an essential step in a SIA, that provides the possibility to
assess the results of different policy options (allowing policy makers to select the most appropriate one) in terms of
acceptability, effectiveness, coherence and efficiency. The overall methodology has been tested on different EU
regions, fisheries and management measures.
MALVAROSA L.;
MURILLAS Arantza;
LEHUTA Sigrid;
NIELSEN R.;
MACHER Claire;
GOTI L.;
MOTOVA Arina;
DOERING Ralf;
HARALDSON Gunnar;
ACCADIA Paolo;
HAMON Katell;
BASTARDIE Francois;
MARAVELIAS Christos;
MARDLE Simon;
THØGERSEN Thomas;
Malvarosa, L., Murillas, A., Lehuta, S., Nielsen, R., Macher, C., Goti, L., Motova, A., Doering, R., Haraldson, G., Accadia, P., Hamon, K., Bastardie, F., Maravelias, C., Mardle, S. and Thøgersen, T., Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) in fisheries: implementation in EU fishing regions, MARINE POLICY, ISSN 0308-597X, 101, 2019, p. 63-79, JRC112369.
2019-04-18
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
JRC112369
0308-597X (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X17308564?via%3Dihub,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC112369,
10.1016/j.marpol.2018.11.039 (online),
