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Shifting Tides in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery: The Political Economy of Regulation and Industry Responses

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  • Elizabeth Havice

    (Elizabeth Havice is an Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Environmental Security and Resource Politics at Colorado College and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on the political economy of natural resource regulation, production and consumption in global systems.)

  • Liam Campling

    (Liam Campling is a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London. His research focus is on the historical constitution of and contemporary dynamics in commodity production-consumption relations. His empirical work is on the global tuna industry and the political economy of development in small island developing states.)

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The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) tuna fishery is the largest and most valuable in the world. Although the International Law of the Sea granted Pacific island countries the right to exploit and manage this valuable fishery, they have been unable to prevent resource decline or to capture economic development potential from their intersections with the global tuna industry. Variants of neoliberalism identify Pacific island countries' weak institutions to explain these failings. We argue that this explanation is insufficient. As an alternative, we offer a political economy analysis of the co-evolution of fisheries regulation and the strategies of the Japanese and Taiwanese fleets (and their governments) in the region. This framing illustrates the relational, multi-scalar processes within and among states and firms that shape patterns in the sector. Our findings indicate that the combination of competitive capital accumulation strategies and inter-state power relations must be addressed to explain challenges in the WCPO tuna sector. (c) 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Elizabeth Havice & Liam Campling, 2010. "Shifting Tides in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery: The Political Economy of Regulation and Industry Responses," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 10(1), pages 89-114, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:10:y:2010:i:1:p:89-114
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    1. Hussain Sinan & Megan Bailey, 2020. "Understanding Barriers in Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Allocation Negotiations on Fishing Opportunities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-15, August.
    2. Liam Campling & Elizabeth Havice, 2013. "Mainstreaming Environment and Development at the World Trade Organization? Fisheries Subsidies, the Politics of Rule-Making, and the Elusive ‘Triple Win’," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 45(4), pages 835-852, April.
    3. Renuka Mahadevan & John Asafu-Adjaye, 2013. "Exploiting comparative advantage in agriculture and resources: the way forward for Small Island States," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 57(3), pages 320-343, July.
    4. Havice, Elizabeth, 2013. "Rights-based management in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fishery: Economic and environmental change under the Vessel Day Scheme," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 259-267.
    5. Yeeting, Agnes D. & Bush, Simon R. & Ram-Bidesi, Vina & Bailey, Megan, 2016. "Implications of new economic policy instruments for tuna management in the Western and Central Pacific," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 45-52.
    6. World Bank, 2012. "Pacific Islands - Fisheries sector engagement strategy," World Bank Publications - Reports 2730, The World Bank Group.
    7. Miller, Alice M.M. & Bush, Simon R. & Mol, Arthur P.J., 2014. "Power Europe: EU and the illegal, unreported and unregulated tuna fisheries regulation in the West and Central Pacific Ocean," Marine Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 138-145.
    8. Scott Moore & Dale Squires, 2016. "Governing the Depths: Conceptualizing the Politics of Deep Sea Resources," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 16(2), pages 101-109, May.

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