The decline of inshore or small-scale coastal fisheries (SSCF) in many countries across the world has been well-documented in major studies published during the last 10 years. Researchers report decreasing stocks of marketable fish, inadequate fish quota allocations, and virtual exclusion from fisheries management decision-making bodies. The situation in England is a case in point, where many SSCF are subject to these pressures to the point that their livelihoods are threatened. A recent initiative sponsored by an industry agency to safeguard the position of the inshore sector aims to protect SSCF in England from decline and possible extinction by integrating it into the mainstream fishing industry and ensuring its representation on a proposed co-management body which would share decision-making between industry and government. However, drawing on the literature, archival documents, newspaper articles, and personal communications, we conclude that integrating all parts of the fleet together and setting up shared co-management arrangements is not a guarantee of SSCF survival because integration would tie SSCF down to the agenda of the large-scale fisheries (LSF) sector with no certainty that the special needs of SSCF would be met if they conflicted with the interests of LSF. Instead, our findings lead us to recommend forging a separatist path for SSCF, recognising its distinctive identity as an inshore fishery closely connected with coastal communities. We propose, therefore, two independent fisheries each with its own mode of management: SSCF governed by a regime of community quotas and exclusive spatial access to inshore waters; and LSF governed by a regime of individual transferable quotas (ITQs).

过去 10 年发表的主要研究充分记录了世界上许多国家近海或小型沿海渔业 (SSCF) 的衰退。研究人员报告说，适销对路的鱼类存量减少，鱼类配额分配不足，并且实际上被排除在渔业管理决策机构之外。英国的情况就是一个很好的例子，许多 SSCF 都受到这些压力，以至于他们的生计受到威胁。最近由一家行业机构发起的一项维护近海部门地位的倡议旨在通过将其纳入主流渔业并确保其在拟议的共同管理机构中的代表权来保护英格兰的 SSCF 免受衰退和可能的灭绝，该机构将分享决策-行业与政府之间的决策。然而，根据文献、档案文件、报纸文章和个人通讯，我们得出结论，将船队的所有部分整合在一起并建立共享的共同管理安排并不能保证 SSCF 生存，因为整合会将 SSCF 束缚在大型渔业 (LSF) 部门不确定如果 SSCF 的特殊需求与 LSF 的利益发生冲突，这些需求是否会得到满足。相反，我们的研究结果使我们建议为 SSCF 开辟一条分离主义道路，承认其作为与沿海社区密切相关的近海渔业的独特身份。因此，我们建议两个独立的渔业，每个渔业都有自己的管理模式：SSCF 由社区配额制度和近海专属空间通道管理；