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Taiwan's response to international fisheries management after 2005 as influenced by ICCAT and fishers' perception

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It is widely recognized that fishing states are obliged to exercise flag state responsibility over their vessels. In an attempt to become a responsible fishing actor, Taiwan has endeavored to manage its distant water fishing fleet in accordance with international fisheries management. However, the long-standing problems of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, fish laundering, and fishing overcapacity, which remained unsolved during the 1990s and early 2000s, brought its management capability into doubt. Failure to address these problems undermined the credibility of all management measures and ultimately resulted in a recommendation adopted by International Commission for the Conservation of the Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) in 2005. This recommendation significantly affected Taiwan's distant water fishing policy. This paper examines how Taiwan assimilated this outside force into its fishing policy as a new response to international fisheries management and how fishers perceived this response. It shows that Taiwan's efforts in controlling distant water fisheries marked a big change, specifically manifest in three noticeable actions – reducing excessive bigeye-targeted efforts, deterring IUU fishing, and strengthening fisheries management. The study advises that management of small tuna vessels be effectively exercised and recommends future actions on providing subsidies for fishers to partially offset costs incurred by rule compliance, streamlining their administrative work, enhancing communication with them, putting more enforcement and meaningful penalties in place. Finally, the study indicates the existence of an interaction in the international fisheries management scheme, potentially favoring Taiwan to bargain for fishing rights and a favorable status in the participation of regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) in the future if it continues to exercise effective control of distant water fisheries.

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  • Chen, Chung-Ling, 2012. "Taiwan's response to international fisheries management after 2005 as influenced by ICCAT and fishers' perception," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 350-357.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:marpol:v:36:y:2012:i:2:p:350-357
    DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.06.012
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    1. Iwao Fujii & Yumi Okochi & Hajime Kawamura, 2021. "Promoting Cooperation of Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance of IUU Fishing in the Asia-Pacific," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-23, September.
    2. Barley Kincaid, Kate & Rose, George A., 2014. "Why fishers want a closed area in their fishing grounds: Exploring perceptions and attitudes to sustainable fisheries and conservation 10 years post closure in Labrador, Canada," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 84-90.
    3. Chen, Chung-Ling & Qiu, Guo-Hao, 2014. "The long and bumpy journey: Taiwan׳s aquaculture development and management," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 152-161.

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