Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

Havice, Elizabeth; Reed, Kristin

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2011.00351.x

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“…For this reason, social and power relations and institutions that organize resource access, property, and ownership in resource systems (Ribot and Peluso 2003, Mansfield 2007, Sikor and Lund 2009, Campling et al 2012, De Alessi 2012, Havice and Reed 2012, as well as processing, marketing, and trade issues across multiple scales, are important to the understanding of the implementation and effects of certification and eco-labeling in particular contexts. These relations and institutions proved significant in shaping the different certification experiences of the Mexican and Canadian cooperatives.…”

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Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Foley¹,

McCay²

2014

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ABSTRACT. We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the literature and two case studies of fishing cooperatives in Baja California Sur, Mexico and on Fogo Island in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), we advance two interrelated arguments. First, certification and eco-labeling institutions privatize fisheries governance in largely unexamined ways through the injection of new forms of exclusive rights or privileges into common pool resource situations already complicated by access and property privileges, creating conditions for confusion and conflict as well as cooperation. Second, the MSC whole stock definition of sustainability places greater demands on certification clients for engaging in collective action by encouraging coordination over all social extractions from targeted fish stocks. Although rules encouraging collective action in common pool situations militate against the narrow private capture of certificate and eco-label rights, they also undermine the ability of small-scale and community-based fisheries that are embedded in larger unhealthy fishery contexts to acquire the right to the MSC stamp of sustainability. We conclude that MSC certification and ecolabeling create new institutions of private property rights and collective action, which can result in exclusionary practices, inclusionary collective action, or both. Much will depend on the specific common pool context and history of the fishery.

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Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Foley¹,

McCay²

2014

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“…In PNG government policy has been to capture value from tuna resources by shifting from 'first' to 'second'-generation access agreements where the national fisheries agency offers foreign fishing firms favorable tuna fishing terms (e.g. no access fee and long-term fishing security) in exchange for onshore investments in tuna processing plants [64]. Although aimed at creating jobs and economic development opportunities for the benefit of PNG, underspecified government interpretations of what constitutes development and follow-up assessments, as well as exploitative behavior observed among firms involved in the access agreements have led to secondary, spillover, effects on local SSF.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These include squeezing out of local fishers and fish markets, thus changing livelihood and marketing opportunities for local fishers. Though it is difficult to quantify ecological change in this sector, local actors argue that industrial fishing is reducing the tuna resource base and that industrial fishing and processing activities are also harming nearshore reef fisheries [64]. Further knock-on effects with largely social implications for the local communities include the growing prostitution linked to the tuna boats associated with the processing plants.…”

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Towards a typology of interactions between small-scale fisheries and global seafood trade

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a b s t r a c tFish and fish-related products are among the most highly traded commodities globally and the proportion of globally harvested fish that is internationally traded has steadily risen over time. Views on the benefits of international seafood trade diverge, partly as a result from adopting either an aggregate national focus or a focus on local market actors. However, both views generally assume that the trade in question is characterized by export of fisheries resources to international markets. This is potentially misleading as empirical evidence suggests that import of seafood can also have impacts on local SSF dynamics. A systematic analysis of the different ways in which local production systems connect to international seafood markets can therefore help shed more light on why small-scale fisheries exhibit such differences in outcomes as they engage in an increasingly global seafood trade. This paper conducts a synthesis across 24 cases from around the world and develops a typology of small-scale fisheries and how they connect to and interact with international seafood trade. The analysis is based on key features drawn from trade theory regarding how trade interacts with local production. The implications of the findings for social and ecological sustainability of small-scale fisheries are discussed with the aim of identifying further research topics which deserve attention to better inform trade policy for more sustainable fisheries and more just wealth distribution from their trade.

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“…However, as Bailey et al (2012) note, the theoretical evidence for cooperative governance arrangements of fisheries, including tuna fisheries, is in stark contrast to their successful implementation. The voluminous literature on cooperation around tuna fisheries in the WCPO focuses on how 'resource rent rivalry' has been driven by a combination of competition for access by distant water fishing nations (DWFNs), the dependency of many Pacific Island countries on tuna for national income, and aspirations for domestic social and economic development (Campbell 1989;Barclay and Cartwright 2007;Havice 2010;Parris 2010b;Havice and Reed 2012;Gagern and van den Bergh In Press). Incentives for cooperation around tuna, like many other marine fishery regions around the world, are therefore underlined by the need for generating domestic wealth from shared resources -which under pressure from divisive treaties and aid relations represents an archetypal prisoner's dilemma.…”

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Sub-regionalisation of fisheries governance: the case of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries

2014

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Shifting political alliances and new environmental challenges are prompting debate over processes of sub-regionalisation and whether the interplay between multiple scales of governance leads to positive synergistic outcomes or negative institutional disruption. Regional management of tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean is an example where a web of treaties, conventions and institutional frameworks underlie international cooperation. Through examining the interplay between the regional Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and sub-regional Parties to the Nauru Agreement, this paper explores the extent to which the PNA and WCPFC interact in the management of regional tuna fisheries. The results demonstrate that for contested marine resources such as fisheries, international sub-regions can go beyond functional units to also present wider opportunities to shift power relations in favour of small island states. Additionally, the presence of sub-regional groups like the PNA has served to challenge the performance of the WCPFC, stimulating greater debate and progress within the regional body. The paper concludes that the combined work of the PNA and the WCPFC puts them ahead on many issues and may represent a testing ground for a functional multilateralism utilising both regional and sub-regional governance platforms for the management of shared resources.

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Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea

Cited by 47 publications

References 34 publications

Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

Towards a typology of interactions between small-scale fisheries and global seafood trade

Sub-regionalisation of fisheries governance: the case of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries

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