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• 61. [Article] The Van Chai and its Role in the Hierarchy of Fisheries Administration in Vietnam

  The long history of the van chai system of Vietnam began several centuries ago with their establishment mainly in the lower and middle reaches of rivers northern Vietnam and in coastal lagoons in Central ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Van Chai and its Role in the Hierarchy of Fisheries Administration in Vietnam Author: Nguyen, Duy Thieu, Ha, Xuan Thong The long history of the van chai system of Vietnam began several centuries ago with their establishment mainly in the lower and middle reaches of rivers northern Vietnam and in coastal lagoons in Central Vietnam, whereas those in marine embayments, like Ha Long Bay, and in enclosed coastal areas, like Tam Giang Lagoon, are of recent origin. Van chai have played an important role in fisheries administration, principally by managing the numbers of fishers, tax collection, smoothing local social relations, and harmonizing fishing operations according to local customary behavior. In addition, they are the main focus of information exchange and transmission of knowledge within a local fishing community. Van chai emerged from agricultural villages and gradually engaged in community self-management. As a result, their administrative and social management patterns are heavily influenced by the characteristics of traditional Vietnamese culture. This strong emphasis on local communities in Vietnamese culture has naturally led to the diversity of cultural characteristics among the van chai of different localities. Here we describe the management and behavioral patterns of some van chai where historical and cultural values remain strong, and which are located close to feudal era capital centers. These are van chai in Co Do, Van Chai Dich Vy (in the North), and some van chai in Tam Giang Lagoon. We highlight the past and present roles of the van chai in the hierarchy of fisheries administration of Vietnam. These provide a foundation to rapidly restore and reconstruct a viable system fisheries co-management based on Vietnamese cultural roots, and not some abstract imported ideas. Title: The Van Chai and its Role in the Hierarchy of Fisheries Administration in Vietnam Author: Nguyen, Duy Thieu, Ha, Xuan Thong The long history of the van chai system of Vietnam began several centuries ago with their establishment mainly in the lower and middle reaches of rivers northern Vietnam and in coastal lagoons in Central Vietnam, whereas those in marine embayments, like Ha Long Bay, and in enclosed coastal areas, like Tam Giang Lagoon, are of recent origin. Van chai have played an important role in fisheries administration, principally by managing the numbers of fishers, tax collection, smoothing local social relations, and harmonizing fishing operations according to local customary behavior. In addition, they are the main focus of information exchange and transmission of knowledge within a local fishing community. Van chai emerged from agricultural villages and gradually engaged in community self-management. As a result, their administrative and social management patterns are heavily influenced by the characteristics of traditional Vietnamese culture. This strong emphasis on local communities in Vietnamese culture has naturally led to the diversity of cultural characteristics among the van chai of different localities. Here we describe the management and behavioral patterns of some van chai where historical and cultural values remain strong, and which are located close to feudal era capital centers. These are van chai in Co Do, Van Chai Dich Vy (in the North), and some van chai in Tam Giang Lagoon. We highlight the past and present roles of the van chai in the hierarchy of fisheries administration of Vietnam. These provide a foundation to rapidly restore and reconstruct a viable system fisheries co-management based on Vietnamese cultural roots, and not some abstract imported ideas. Close

• 62. [Article] Climate Change and Fishery Governance in the Pacific Northwest US: the Case of Columbia River Basin Salmon

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Climate Change and Fishery Governance in the Pacific Northwest US: the Case of Columbia River Basin Salmon Author: Hanna, Susan Abstract only. Title: Climate Change and Fishery Governance in the Pacific Northwest US: the Case of Columbia River Basin Salmon Author: Hanna, Susan Abstract only. Close

• 63. [Article] Modeling the Collision of Two Different Management Regimes: When Catch Share System Meets Common Pool Fishery

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Modeling the Collision of Two Different Management Regimes: When Catch Share System Meets Common Pool Fishery Author: Uchida, Hirotsugu Abstract only. Title: Modeling the Collision of Two Different Management Regimes: When Catch Share System Meets Common Pool Fishery Author: Uchida, Hirotsugu Abstract only. Close

• 64. [Article] Characterization of the California Live Bait Fishery

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Characterization of the California Live Bait Fishery Author: Hilger, James Abstract only. Title: Characterization of the California Live Bait Fishery Author: Hilger, James Abstract only. Close

• 65. [Article] An Experimental Analysis of Harvest Timing in Fisheries With Sectors Managed By Different Methods

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: An Experimental Analysis of Harvest Timing in Fisheries With Sectors Managed By Different Methods Author: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Anderson, Christopher Abstract only. Title: An Experimental Analysis of Harvest Timing in Fisheries With Sectors Managed By Different Methods Author: Uchida, Hirotsugu, Anderson, Christopher Abstract only. Close

• 66. [Article] Turning a Fish into a Brand: A Century of Rent-Seeking Strategies in the Tuna Canning Industry

  Over the past century, the tuna canning industry has been dominated by a few big companies, some of them having changed of ownership or merged: these oligopolistic firms are the “big three” in the USA, Van ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Turning a Fish into a Brand: A Century of Rent-Seeking Strategies in the Tuna Canning Industry Author: Mongruel, Rémi, Jiménez-Toribio, Ramón, García del Hoyo, Juan José, Guillotreau, Patrice Over the past century, the tuna canning industry has been dominated by a few big companies, some of them having changed of ownership or merged: these oligopolistic firms are the “big three” in the USA, Van Camp, Star Kist, and Bumble Bee, the French Saupiquet, the Italian Trinity Alimentari and the Spanish Calvo in Europe, and, a bit later, the Thailandese groups Thai Union and Sea Value. Specialized in the canning of seafood, if not exclusively in tuna canning, these firms are key operators on the international markets for raw material or processed products and benefit from the reputation of their private brands. This paper depicts the history of the world tuna canning industry throughout the past century, providing a synthesis of the abundant but dispersed literature on the subject, with an emphasis on the major companies of this industry. An analytical framework is proposed, mixing up some evidence regarding the rent-seeking strategies followed by leading companies and the various forms of rents which have been identified in the literature by both fisheries and business economists: resource scarcity rent, infra-marginal rent of producers (productivity rent), technological rent (increasing returns to scale and innovations in the fishing and processing industries), quasi-monopoly rent or reputation rent (due to the horizontal differentiation from advertising) and organisational rent (in relation to the new international division of labour). The discussion suggests that the basic principles of fisheries sustainable management are somehow challenged by the economic objectives of an industry enjoying such a variety of rents. Title: Turning a Fish into a Brand: A Century of Rent-Seeking Strategies in the Tuna Canning Industry Author: Mongruel, Rémi, Jiménez-Toribio, Ramón, García del Hoyo, Juan José, Guillotreau, Patrice Over the past century, the tuna canning industry has been dominated by a few big companies, some of them having changed of ownership or merged: these oligopolistic firms are the “big three” in the USA, Van Camp, Star Kist, and Bumble Bee, the French Saupiquet, the Italian Trinity Alimentari and the Spanish Calvo in Europe, and, a bit later, the Thailandese groups Thai Union and Sea Value. Specialized in the canning of seafood, if not exclusively in tuna canning, these firms are key operators on the international markets for raw material or processed products and benefit from the reputation of their private brands. This paper depicts the history of the world tuna canning industry throughout the past century, providing a synthesis of the abundant but dispersed literature on the subject, with an emphasis on the major companies of this industry. An analytical framework is proposed, mixing up some evidence regarding the rent-seeking strategies followed by leading companies and the various forms of rents which have been identified in the literature by both fisheries and business economists: resource scarcity rent, infra-marginal rent of producers (productivity rent), technological rent (increasing returns to scale and innovations in the fishing and processing industries), quasi-monopoly rent or reputation rent (due to the horizontal differentiation from advertising) and organisational rent (in relation to the new international division of labour). The discussion suggests that the basic principles of fisheries sustainable management are somehow challenged by the economic objectives of an industry enjoying such a variety of rents. Close

• 67. [Article] Climate, Uncertainty and the Pacific Salmon Treaty: Insights on the Harvest Management Game

  Pacific Salmon are anadromous fish that cross state and international boundaries in their oceanic migrations. Fish spawned in the rivers of one jurisdiction are vulnerable to harvest in other jurisdictions. ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Climate, Uncertainty and the Pacific Salmon Treaty: Insights on the Harvest Management Game Author: Munro, Gordon, Tyedmers, Peter, McKelvey, Robert, Miller, Kathleen Year: 2001 Pacific Salmon are anadromous fish that cross state and international boundaries in their oceanic migrations. Fish spawned in the rivers of one jurisdiction are vulnerable to harvest in other jurisdictions. The rocky history of attempts by the United States and Canada to cooperatively manage their respective salmon harvests suggests that environmental variability may complicate the management of such shared resources. In recent years, an extended breakdown in cooperation was fueled by strongly divergent trends in Alaskan and southern salmon abundance, and a consequent change in the balance of each nation s interceptions of salmon spawned in the other nation s rivers. While several natural and anthropogenic factors contributed to these trends, there is considerable evidence that changing ocean conditions played a significant role. The period of high productivity in Alaska contributed to increased Alaskan interceptions of B.C. salmon at a time when Pacific Northwest coho and chinook could least withstand retaliatory actions on the part of the Canadian fleet. Only recently, has the mounting crisis led to a fundamental shift in the approach taken by the two nations to determine their respective salmon-harvest shares. On June 30, 1999, Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement which, if successfully implemented, may lay the groundwork for a more sustainable cooperative management regime. However, there are many unanswered questions regarding the viability and sustainability of the new Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement. This paper draws lessons from the recent period of turmoil to identify strengths and weaknesses in the new abundance-based management approach, and to suggest avenues for further negotiations to secure more rational management of Pacific salmon resources. Title: Climate, Uncertainty and the Pacific Salmon Treaty: Insights on the Harvest Management Game Author: Munro, Gordon, Tyedmers, Peter, McKelvey, Robert, Miller, Kathleen Year: 2001 Pacific Salmon are anadromous fish that cross state and international boundaries in their oceanic migrations. Fish spawned in the rivers of one jurisdiction are vulnerable to harvest in other jurisdictions. The rocky history of attempts by the United States and Canada to cooperatively manage their respective salmon harvests suggests that environmental variability may complicate the management of such shared resources. In recent years, an extended breakdown in cooperation was fueled by strongly divergent trends in Alaskan and southern salmon abundance, and a consequent change in the balance of each nation s interceptions of salmon spawned in the other nation s rivers. While several natural and anthropogenic factors contributed to these trends, there is considerable evidence that changing ocean conditions played a significant role. The period of high productivity in Alaska contributed to increased Alaskan interceptions of B.C. salmon at a time when Pacific Northwest coho and chinook could least withstand retaliatory actions on the part of the Canadian fleet. Only recently, has the mounting crisis led to a fundamental shift in the approach taken by the two nations to determine their respective salmon-harvest shares. On June 30, 1999, Canada and the U.S. signed an agreement which, if successfully implemented, may lay the groundwork for a more sustainable cooperative management regime. However, there are many unanswered questions regarding the viability and sustainability of the new Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement. This paper draws lessons from the recent period of turmoil to identify strengths and weaknesses in the new abundance-based management approach, and to suggest avenues for further negotiations to secure more rational management of Pacific salmon resources. Close

• 68. [Article] The Lofoten Fishery Over a Hundred Years

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Lofoten Fishery Over a Hundred Years Author: Hannesson, Rognvaldur, Squires, Dale, Salvanes, Kjell Abstract only. Title: The Lofoten Fishery Over a Hundred Years Author: Hannesson, Rognvaldur, Squires, Dale, Salvanes, Kjell Abstract only. Close

• 69. [Article] The cost of fisheries induced evolution. An example using data for North-East Atlantic cod

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The cost of fisheries induced evolution. An example using data for North-East Atlantic cod Author: Reithe, Siv Abstract only. Title: The cost of fisheries induced evolution. An example using data for North-East Atlantic cod Author: Reithe, Siv Abstract only. Close

• 70. [Article] Oyster farming and externalities: a bioeconomic approach

  The management of the French shellfish industry has been based for a century and a half on a Territorial Use Right in Fisheries (TURF) scheme. This was meant to ensure control over access and use and was ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Oyster farming and externalities: a bioeconomic approach Author: Le Rouxel, Astrid, Barillé, Laurent, Le Bihan, Véronique, Le Grel, Laurent The management of the French shellfish industry has been based for a century and a half on a Territorial Use Right in Fisheries (TURF) scheme. This was meant to ensure control over access and use and was seen as a potential remedy for overexploitation. But the resource, i.e. shellfish nutrients, is mobile and carried by streams. As a consequence, space allocation is far from being an efficient tool to share the resource between producers. The history of the French shellfish industry is marked by a series of overfishing crises occurring in most of the open-access shellfish beds located all along the French coastline. When the concession system was enforced (1852), it was designed to cope with congestion and overfishing issues more than with the development of shellfish culture. After turning into a breeding activity in the late nineteenth century, the oyster industry kept suffering major crises such as massive diseases. Their occurrence can be analysed in terms of overexploitation resulting from technological externalities. This article presents the current progress in the bioeconomic modelling of the oystergrowing industry in the Bay of Bourgneuf (Pays de la Loire). In this bay, 400 firms, mostly family-sized, are being conceded 1,000 ha and sell about 1,0000 tons of Crassostrea gigas oysters a year. The model will highlight the externalities that result from the concession system and provide a basis for discussing policy measures. Title: Oyster farming and externalities: a bioeconomic approach Author: Le Rouxel, Astrid, Barillé, Laurent, Le Bihan, Véronique, Le Grel, Laurent The management of the French shellfish industry has been based for a century and a half on a Territorial Use Right in Fisheries (TURF) scheme. This was meant to ensure control over access and use and was seen as a potential remedy for overexploitation. But the resource, i.e. shellfish nutrients, is mobile and carried by streams. As a consequence, space allocation is far from being an efficient tool to share the resource between producers. The history of the French shellfish industry is marked by a series of overfishing crises occurring in most of the open-access shellfish beds located all along the French coastline. When the concession system was enforced (1852), it was designed to cope with congestion and overfishing issues more than with the development of shellfish culture. After turning into a breeding activity in the late nineteenth century, the oyster industry kept suffering major crises such as massive diseases. Their occurrence can be analysed in terms of overexploitation resulting from technological externalities. This article presents the current progress in the bioeconomic modelling of the oystergrowing industry in the Bay of Bourgneuf (Pays de la Loire). In this bay, 400 firms, mostly family-sized, are being conceded 1,000 ha and sell about 1,0000 tons of Crassostrea gigas oysters a year. The model will highlight the externalities that result from the concession system and provide a basis for discussing policy measures. Close