Tuna Dreams
Resource Nationalism and the Pacific Islands' Tuna Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4893458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Schurman (0000-0003-2327-7021, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author), Rachel A Schurman |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-136 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00072 |
| OpenAlex | W2086832500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
The 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea was expected by many to lead to a drastic redistribution of income from the world's fisheries. This article explores the extent to which this happened by examining the case of the Pacific Islands' tuna industry. The analysis shows that even though these developing countries gained legal jurisdiction over some of the largest tuna stocks in the world, they encountered tremendous obstacles when they attempted to convert those tenure rights into concrete economic gains. Notwithstanding their success in organizing and co-operating amongst themselves, the Pacific Island countries (PICs) were unable to compel the distant water fishing nations to pay them more than a nominal access fee. When the PICs tried instead to develop their own tuna industries, they were disadvantaged by being located at the raw material end of the commodity chain. This case study suggests that a change in property rights is only a starting point for achieving increased equity in a global natural resource industry; not only do the new resource owners have to develop expertise in managing their 'property'; they also need to develop a good understanding of the organization and operation of these natural resource industries
Business · Developing country · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law) · Exclusive economic zone · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Fishing · Fishing industry · International trade · Jurisdiction · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resource (disambiguation) · Tuna · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law
Fishing. Western, Japanese and Islander Perceptions of Ecology and Modernization in the Pacific
Materializing the blue economy
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods
Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations
Connected by sea, disconnected by tuna? Challenges to regionalism in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Maritime security and the Blue Economy
Mining the homeland
Shifting Tides in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery
Tropical commodity chains, forward integration strategies and international inequality
From shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) to oceanic system pathways (OSPs)
Can Africa Industrialize by Processing Primary Commodities? The Case of Mozambican Cashew Nuts
Awash with contradiction
Cycles of resource nationalism
Modernity and life politics
Unsettled Sovereignty and the Sea
Geographical Dimensions to Global Oceans Governance
Introducing Jurisdiction
Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea
The problem of property in industrial fisheries
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |