Fisheries: While Stocks Last (OECD Insights)

Contents......Page 9
1. Fishing: Difficult,Dangerous andDoomed?......Page 10
By way of introduction.........Page 12
What this book is about......Page 13
Box. Fisheries at the OECD......Page 17
2. A HundredThousandYears of Fishing......Page 18
By way of introduction.........Page 20
Leaving the shores......Page 21
Birth of an industry......Page 23
The North Atlantic......Page 25
New technologies......Page 26
Figure: Adaptable but dangerous......Page 27
The agro-food industry......Page 29
Find Out More......Page 31
3. Fisheries: Taking Stock......Page 32
By way of introduction.........Page 34
The fisheries workforce......Page 35
Box. Counting fish......Page 36
Catching fish......Page 37
Farming fish......Page 38
Figure: DEVELOPMENT OF FISHERIES PRODUCTIONAND EXPORTS......Page 39
Artisanal fishing......Page 41
Fishing for fun......Page 42
An industry in decline?......Page 44
Figure: WORLD FISH PRODUCTION BY CAPTURE FISHERIES ANDAQUACULTURE......Page 45
Find Out More......Page 47
4. Sea of
Troubles......Page 48
By way of introduction.........Page 50
El Niño and climate change......Page 51
Figure: EL NIÑO SEEN BY US/FRENCH TOPEX/POSEIDON SATELLITEON 1 DECEMBER 1997......Page 52
Box. Reefer madness......Page 53
Dirty water – pollution and other threats......Page 54
The last wild fish?......Page 57
What can be done?......Page 59
Box. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch......Page 60
Box. Ghost fish......Page 61
Box. From wondyrchoums to bottom trawling......Page 62
Find Out More......Page 63
5. Pirate Fishing......Page 64
By way of introduction.........Page 66
Box. Definitions of IUU Fishing in the International Planof Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal,Unreported and Unregulated Fishing......Page 67
Low fines......Page 68
Too many boats, too many fishers......Page 69
Rogue states......Page 70
Name and shame......Page 71
Poor pirates......Page 72
Find Out More......Page 75
6. Selling the Seven Seas......Page 76
By way of introduction.........Page 78
International trade and agreements......Page 79
Figure: INCREASING PARTICIPATION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIESIN FISHERIES EXPORTS......Page 80
Box. The Roaring 20s: Guns, gangsters and herring......Page 82
Globalised processing......Page 83
Retail influences......Page 86
Box. Winning and losing strategies......Page 87
Demographic and lifestyle trends......Page 89
Fishing is special......Page 91
Find Out More......Page 93
7. Hooked onHandouts?......Page 94
Putting fisheries subsidies on the agenda......Page 96
Defining and estimating fisheries subsidies......Page 98
Economic and other impacts of subsidies......Page 99
Table: Summary of estimates of fisheries subsidies......Page 100
Fisheries subsidies, trade and the Doha Round......Page 103
Reforming subsidies......Page 104
Short term versus long term......Page 106
Box. Fisheries subsidies......Page 107
Find Out More......Page 109
8. Sea Changes......Page 110
By way of introduction.........Page 112
Why adjust in the first place?......Page 113
Adjustment, development and capacity......Page 115
Forms of adjustment......Page 116
How does adjustment affect aspects other thanfishing?......Page 117
Windfall payments......Page 119
Box. Ghost town......Page 121
Decay in fishing communities......Page 122
Box. Adjustment off Cape Cod......Page 123
The politics of adjustment......Page 124
Box. Gender considerations and the role of women......Page 126
Find Out More......Page 127
9. Fisheries:
Common
Wealth?......Page 128
By way of introduction.........Page 130
A global commons?......Page 131
Ending the free-for-all......Page 132
Governance and fisheries reform......Page 134
Box. A tragedy?......Page 135
International governance......Page 139
Find Out More......Page 141
References......Page 142