Tuna Resource Management - Troubled fishing in Pacific waters
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2006
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Duncan, Ronald
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Asia Pacific Press
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The Pacific island countries persist with
tuna fishing policies that are significantly
inferior to what appear to be the
economically and environmentally sensible
courses to follow. Economists have been
offering advice over a fairly long period about
better policy options without having any
discernable favourable impact. This lack of
success might be due, as Gordon Tullock once
said, to the fact that economists tend to flit
from one area to another in demonstrating
problems with government policies. Tullock
suggested that economists, whose primary
task is to prod governments towards better
policies, could have better success if
individual economists focused on one issue
and continually endeavoured to educate the
public and the government about the
problems with that particular socially
inferior intervention.
It is in that spirit that I discuss again
problems that I and others see in the tuna
fishing policies of the Pacific island
countries. I also examine some of the costs of
existing policies and reasons for these
governments failing to follow what appear
to be policies that will maximise the benefits
from the exploitation of this resource in an
environmentally sustainable manner.
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Pacific Economic Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2006
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