Addressing the Problem of Excess Fishing Capacity in Tuna Fisheries

Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-38

  Joseph, James ^a   Squires, Dale ^b,c,d,e   Bayliff, William ^f   Groves, Theodore ^c  

^a US National Marine Fisheries Service ^*  (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

"illegal, unregulated and unreported" (IUU) fishing; Excess fishing capacity; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI); Individual quotas transferable (ITQ); International Plan of Action for the Management of Fishing Capacity (IPOACAPACITY); Need for Agreement; Options tending to remove incentive for overcapacity; Problem of excess fishing capacity in tuna fisheries; Status of the Stocks Supporting World Tuna Fisheries; Western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO)

Indexed keywords

EXCESS FISHING CAPACITY; FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATIONS; INDIVIDUAL QUOTAS TRANSFERABLE (ITQ); INTERNATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FISHING CAPACITY (IPOACAPACITY); OVER CAPACITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; TUNA FISHERIES;

FISHERIES;

EID: 84861308106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813820262.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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