Fisheries
Fisheries Support Estimate
Introduction
The OECD has developed the Fisheries Support Estimate (FSE) database to measure fisheries support policies in a way that allows users to compare how fisheries supports differ between countries and evolve over time.
Governments provide support to the fisheries sector through a wide range of policies, including fisheries stock management, safe working environments for fishers, reducing fleet capacity and, in some cases, supporting fishers’ incomes.
Fisheries support in the FSE is defined as the annual monetary value of gross transfers to fishers from taxpayers, arising from policies targeted to the fisheries sector, whether their objectives are social, economic or environmental. Most reported policies provide an overall benefit to the sector, primarily management services and infrastructure investments. This support is included in the General Services Support Estimate (GSSE) part of the FSE. Support that is received directly by fishers is called transfers to individual fishers (TIF), which mainly takes the form of income support or disaster assistance. Fishers also benefit from support from broader economic policies, such as tax exemptions, that do not directly target the sector. These are not included in the FSE, but the OECD has estimated their value in a separate report the OECD has estimated their value in a separate report.
The FSE data are updated each year and can be accessed on OECD.Stat.
Access the data
The FSE data can be accessed here: oe.cd/FSE. The FSE is updated each year.
Note: Missing figures for value of landings have been estimated using data from 'The 2016 Annual Economic Report on the EU Fishing Fleet' (Belgium, France, Lithuania, Spain) or in some cases simply carrying over the value of the previous year. The GSSE numbers reported here include estimations for management and enforcement expenditures, where missing. Further details on the estimation method used are provided in the Review of Fisheries 2017 (see link in Related publications). Portugal and Mexico did not report any figure under the GSSE category so the numbers provided here reflect exclusively the estimations of management and enforcement expenditures.
Source: OECD Fisheries Database
Country files
Access the data and the programmes in place for the countries participating in the Fisheries Support Estimate (in an excel spreadsheet). The data can also be accessed through OECD.stat.
Related publications
You might also be interested to read the following reports published by the Fisheries Unit at the OECD:
- Support to Fisheries: Levels and Impacts (pdf): Reports supports to the fisheries sector and proposes classifying these according to their degree of impact.
- OECD Review of Fisheries 2017: developments in policies and activities in the fishing and aquaculture sectors of OECD countries and participating economies, mainly for the period 2015-16.
- OECD Review of Fisheries 2015: developments in policies and activities in the fishing and aquaculture sectors of OECD countries and participating economies, mainly for the period 2014-15.
- OECD Review of Fisheries 2013: developments in policies and activities in the fishing and aquaculture sectors of OECD countries and participating economies, mainly for the period 2012-13.
- Martini, R. (2012), "Fuel Tax Concessions in the Fisheries Sector", OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, No. 56, OECD Publishing, Paris.
- FSE Manual: a comprehensive explanation of concepts, calculation, interpretation and use of the FSE and related indicators
Contact
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