Economic Impact - fishing tourism, NI

Salt-water recreational fishing is the fastest growing part of the nature-based tourism industry in Norway. As coastal communities are in need for new economic activity this is positive.

However, there is an outspoken need from both the Norwegian fisheries management, commercial fisheries and the tourism industri for an increased research based knowledge on which to base future decision making on fishing tourism.

A goal for the project is to inform policy- and economy decisions that secure a sustainable and effective allocation of scarce resources to increase the overall welfare of coastal communities.

The project will develop a model to study regional economic impacts of marine fishing tourism, using Norway as a case. The data from the Norwegian case study will be linked to data from an ongoing survey on fish catches in marine fishing tourism in Norway. From this it will be possible to compare the economic value per unit fish in traditional commericial fisheries and fishing tourism.