Policy-driven territorial innovation

The chapter explores the past and current situation for small-scale fisheries as well as the logics applied to support growth and development. The 20th century saw both a substantial growth in the Nordic fishing sectors but also the introduction of advanced quota management. However, while the biological governance of the marine resources improved, the economic performance worsened. Often quota management resulted in rigid and ill performing fishing sectors. Market-based fisheries management systems were conceived to alter this situation. It is evident from the Nordic and the global experiences that while market-based fisheries management produces the desired economic reform of the sector, it does not in its present form produce viable conditions for small-scale fisheries.