Ensuring representative economic data: survey data-collection methods in France for implementing the Common Fisheries Policy

Van Iseghem, Sylvie
Quillérou, Emmanuelle
Brigaudeau, Cécile
Macher, Claire
Guyader, Olivier
Daures, Fabienne

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Publication date

August 2011

DOI

10.1093/icesjms/fsr112

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Abstract

Full text : http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/fsr112? ijkey=zMjuDtmTGSr3qKx&keytype=refInternational audienceSince 2001, Ifremer has implemented an economic data collection programme (EDCP) within the Data Collection Framework of the EU. It aims to obtain economic data from a sample of vessels representative of the entire French fishing fleet. This paper presents the strategies used for vessel sampling selection in the French EDCP and its implementation over several consecutive years. The approach is illustrated by the sampling plan for the fleet in the North Sea Channel Atlantic region. We show that the EDCP allows precise economic indicators such as gross revenue or fuel costs to be estimated for the whole fishing fleet, ...