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Effective fisheries management is foundational to the sustainability and longevity of global and national fisheries. However, these management measures are not without costs. As governments seek to trim budgets and more efficiently deliver their fisheries services (monitoring, enforcement, etc), it is important to understand the true costs of management and the revenues generated from their fisheries and marine resources. This is particularly true for countries that rely heavily on their fisheries for their economy, livelihoods, and food security. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy and local partners in the Seychelles, emLab investigated the costs associated with managing fishing in the Seychelles’ EEZ, as well as the portion of those costs that could be recovered from local fishing fleets.