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Filtering by: Creator Dott, Robert H., 1929- Conference Name International Institute of Fisheries Economics & Trade

Turning a Fish into a Brand: A Century of Rent-Seeking Strategies in the Tuna Canning Industry

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Mongruel, Rémi, Guillotreau, Patrice, García del Hoyo, Juan José, and Jiménez-Toribio, Ramón

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Over the past century, the tuna canning industry has been dominated by a few big companies, some of them having changed of ownership or merged: these oligopolistic firms are the “big three” in the USA, Van Camp, Star Kist, and Bumble Bee, the French Saupiquet, the Italian Trinity Alimentari and...

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financial support of the canneries (Godsil H. C., 1938). The bait-boats grew in size and became able to
Is There Hope for Fisheries Management?

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Schrank, William E.

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Fisheries is not the only discipline where models have been used in attempts to fine tune an aspect of the economy. Such fine tuning can prove ineffective because of the uncertainties in the scientific underpinnings of the models and because of the omission of critical elements. In fisheries, the biological...

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(1969) and the stability issues raised by Robert Lucas (1976). The approach gradually fell out of favor