Management and Enforcement Costs in Norway's Fisheries
By Rongnvaldur Hannesson
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses public expenditures on fisheries in Norway. The purpose is to identify management and enforceable costs, where management is defined as regulations necessary to overcome the open access problem. Management costs thus include costs of devising and enforcing fisheries regulations. They include stock assessments and monitoring at sea, but do not include research with a more academic orientation, search and rescue operations, and various infrastructure such as fishing harbors. The figures cover the period 1990-1998. Aggregate costs are roughly the equivalent of 100 million US dollars, which amounts to 8-12 percent of the catch value, a variation which is primarily due to the variability of the annual catch. Total expenditures on the fisheries sector have been much higher in the past; in 1990-91 subsidies were more than 20 percent of the catch value but were down to approximately 2 percent in 1996-98.
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