Nordic fisheries towards 2025 – and beyond

The chapter examines the trends identified in relation to the future development of the fishing industry and policies. We discuss how these trends affect the industry in the future and how they will affect the hired, the skilled and the self-employed fisherman as well as the quota-holding fisherman in the longer run. For hired and highly skilled fishers, this will mean only little change. For those who desire to invest in quotas, it will be hard to compete in open competition with the large companies. To alter this development, the desired social diversity has to be even further rooted in the fisheries policy design. This makes the public debate and policy process even more important.