Table 1.

Summary of the literature

Author	Method	Criteria	Region
(Spoors et al. 2021)	Survey with fishers	Economic, Environmental	Creel fisheries in Scotland
(Pope et al. 2019)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Environmental, Economic, Institutional	North Sea fisheries
(Nielsen et al. 2019)	Participatory decision support tool	Biological, Economic	West coast Scotland-Cod and whiting
(Romeo and Marciano 2019)	Participatory Multi-criteria approach	Biological, Economic Social	Mediterranean
(Williams et al. 2018)	Multi-attribute utility theory	Economic, Environmental, Biological, Logistics	English Chanel fisheries-European Seabass
(Rindorf et al. 2017)	Participatory Multi-criteria approach	Economic, Ecosystem, Governance, Social	European fisheries
(Morton et al. 2016)	semi-structured interviews with representative stakeholders	Social, Political	Scottish Wild Salmon fisheries
(Kempf et al. 2016)	Participatory Multi-objective approach	Governance	North Sea
(Rossetto et al. 2015)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Biological, Economic, Social	Mediterranean
(Heen et al. 2014)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Socio-Economic, Environmental	Norway-Cod fisheries
(Ross 2013)	In depth case study and interview with Fishermen	Social	North East Scotland
(Innes and Pascoe 2010)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Bycatch, Habitat damage	European fisheries
(Utne, 2008)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Socio-Economic Environmental	Norway-Cod fisheries
(Nielsen and Mathiesen 2006)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Economic, Biological, Political	Norway and Denmark fisheries
(Mardle et al. 2004)	Participatory Multi-criteria decision approach	Economic, Allocation, and Conservation	English Channel fisheries