ESPON 2'1'5: Territorial Impacts of European Fisheries Policy

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ESPON 2.1.5 Territorial Impacts of European
Fisheries Policy

• Second Interim Report
• Prepared for the Luxembourg Seminar 17-18 May
  2005
• Ove Langeland,
• Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional
  research, (NIBR), Norway

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Background and aim of project

• The European fisheries policy (CFP) - sector
  policy with substantial implications for
• employment, cohesion and regional economic
  strength, particularly in some coastal regions
  and in fisheries dependent areas.
• ESPON Project 2.1.5 strengthen the knowledge of
  territorial, social and economic cohesion through
  an analysis of territorial impacts of the CFP.

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Changes in the European Fisheries Policy (CFP)

• Conservation of fish stocks
• Restructuring of fishing and fish farming
• Organisation of the market for fish and
  associated products
• Agreements on fishing with third countries
  (European Commission 2004)

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Territorial impact analysis

• Work packages
• Impacts on employment, social cohesion and
  demography (WP3)
• Impacts on regional economic strength (WP4)
• Impacts on environment and coastal zone
  management (WP5)
• Special focus on
• Disparities between regions within EU/EFTA and
  inside the different nations
• Impacts within different types of coastal regions
  - identify regions most negatively and
  positively affected by changes in European
  fisheries policy.
• Examine the possibility for doing intra
  regional/area analyses on different geographical
  levels - analyses related to ESPD perspectives as
  polycentric development and a balanced
  rural-urban development.

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Methodological challenges and data availability

• Time period of analysis
• Ex-ante
• Simulation of changes in policy interventions -
  models and assessment techniques
• Evaluation - SWOT analysis or other qualitative
  techniques of planned financial support to the
  European fishery sector
• Ex-post
• Analyse impacts of similar type of changes which
  are assumed to follow from CFP - fleet reduction,
  quotas etc
• Geographical level of analysis
• Mapping
• ESPON-space ESPON database
• Example studies selected national data sources
  and studies
• Cause and effects
• Changes in CFP - only one of several external
  factors which may have territorial impacts on
  coastal regions and fishery dependent areas

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Main typology of coastal regions

• include every NUTS 3 regions within ESPON with a
  coastline, i.e. territories bordering an ocean
• partly be based on previous ESPON territorial
  typologies
• differentiate between typological elements and a
  main typology
• take specific coastal issues into consideration
• be both site (demography, business structure) and
  situation oriented (proximity)
• to some extent be based on statistics at lower
  geographical levels than NUTS 3 or typological
  elements based on such geographical levels
  which means that the typology should include
  internal diversity in each NUTS 3 regions as a
  criterion
• include a criterion for functional regions within
  the territories (FUA) - possible for example
  studies in smaller geographical areas to be
  connected to a sub territorial geographical
  typological level within the NUTS 3 region
• define typologies where the difference between
  regions within each type should be as small as
  possible, and difference between types as big as
  possible

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NUTS 2 region with coastal border
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NUTS 3 region with coastal border
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Typology of coastal regions (NUTS 3)
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Policy recommendation and further work

• Policy recommendation
• Consider that CFP may produce different impacts
  in different regions, and in different types of
  regions
• Counteract impacts of CFP which contradict aims
  of cohesion, territorially balanced development
  and polycentrism.
• Consider territorial distribution of innovation
  in the fisheries
• Further work
• Mapping and example studies data collection
• Methodological approach (TIA)
• Other ESPON studies