Coping with poachers in European stalked barnacle fisheries: Insights from a stakeholder workshop

A stakeholder workshop focused on European stalked barnacle fisheries, highlighting significant regional variations in management approaches. Discussions emphasized the pervasive challenge of poaching and identified key strategies such as granting exclusive access to professional harvesters, implementing tenure systems like Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries, intensifying surveillance with harvester involvement, enhancing cooperation among fishers associations and authorities, improving legal frameworks, adopting new technologies, and exploring market-based solutions to combat poaching effectively.

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