| Whether what is at stake is land-use management and stabilising the economy of the shoreline areas for a good number of developed countries or involvement in food self-sufficiency, contributing to the balance of payments and stabilising employment for developing countries, in every instance, the economic and/or political importance of fisheries management as a business sector is far from being marginal in most of the countries concerned. Thus, from the moment the question of the inexhaustibility of the resources was posed, the desire to manage them manifested itself by the emergence of social demand, peculiarly at around the same time as research, due to the involvement of the researchers in the decision-making bodies of land-use and business management... |
