The aim of this paper is to analyze the overall management of
the sector, critically review the existing legislative, policy and
regulatory frameworks, the compliance and enforcement mechanisms,
and the impacts that these arrangements have on the nature
and extent of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The paper proceeds, first, by describing the fisheries management
from a developing country perspective, with emphasis given to the
inherent problems and recommendations on the approaches,
which fit their context. Second, it gives a description of the context
in which fisheries in Yemen operate, details the contributions that
the fisheries made to the society and to the economy, and the
problems arise from both outside and inside the sector. It also
presents the historical development of the fishery, distinguishes
the two small and large-scale subsectors, and describes the key
fish species of the fishery. Then it describes the fisheries management
in Yemen, with emphasis given to the policy and regulatory
frameworks and how appropriate these tools are. This is followed