Overview of Norwegian marine fishing and fishing vessel management

This paper briefly introduced the status of Norwegian marine fishing industry and fishing vessel management: its fish catches reached to 230 million tons,production value went up to NOK 15.9 billion(about USD 2.68 billion),the fishing population and the number of fishing vessel were around 12 791 and 6 252,respectively in 2011.In the past 10 years,the fish catches generally maintained stability,and the average yearly catches were around 250 million tons,while the number of fishing vessel and the fishing population showed a gradual decrease.This indicates that Norwegian fishing vessel enhanced the fishing capacity greatly,and the fishing efficiency improved significantly.Norway has so perfect fisheries management systems and regulations as to establish the legal basis for controlling fishing intensity and preserving marine fishery resources.At the present stage,our fisheries resources management system mainly implement the input control system such as fishing vessel number control,supplemented by other management methods.This is consistent with the reality of our country.Practice has proved that the policy,which cuts down fishing vessel number and changes careers,is one of the effective measures to control fishing vessel scale and decrease marine fishing intensity.