Towards a sustainable economy for the Shetland Islands: Development and management issues in fishing and fish farming
Economic structure ; Economy ; Fishery ; Fishing ; Fishing resources ; Oil industry ; Rational use ; Shetland Islands ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
As well as the development of oil from the 1970s there has been the other major economic innovation of fish farming. The direct employment provided by the oil industry is exceeded by the fish-related industries. The islands have now to look more
to fish-related employment for their future. Fish farming has a notable effect in distributing employment throughout the islands. Fish processing is mainly in central locations.
The paper compares alternative regulating systems: dualism or the currently practised 35/65 percentage share between offshore trawlers and coastal fishing boats, boat quotas, group quotas, company quotas, individual quotas, tradable quotas and area
nearly avoided human influence until the late 19th century when dune plantation and coast protection was begun. At the same time, the first harbours were built by the Danish state, mainly for fishing purposes. The human influence increased through
Europe ; Fishing ; Hydrocarbon ; International agreement ; Management ; Maritime law ; North Sea ; Resource management ; Sea ; Sea transport ; Storage site ; Waste ; Western Europe