The main purpose of this study is to answer a question, "Are the Japanese Fisheries Responsible?" The author tries to find the answer by analyzing a historical trend of the Japanese fisheries policies, recent legislation such as "Fisheries Basic Law" and "Sustainable Aquaculture Production Assurance Law", and example cases of...
For three years, a multidisciplinary group of researchers in social sciences, has analysed the Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of fisheries management in Europe. In the framework of this ELSA Pêche programme funded under the ELSA line of the FAIR research programme of the European Commission (DG XII, Research), a...
Fisheries are increasingly important in the world with growing demand for fish in China, Western, African and Asian countries. Many people depend on fisheries and will be benefited from fisheries. Many governments took fisheries promotion policies after the 1970s when the UN 3rd Law of the Sea Conference developed. However,...
Traditional economic analysis posits market-based institutions as being substitutes for non-market based institutions.
The process of development then tends to be seen as the process of substituting the more efficient market based institutions for
their less efficient counterparts. This paper argues that non-market institutions are at times more efficient than...
This paper elaborates the use of distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGA) to study an artificial land rental market. The
study is based on a spatial comparative-static model in which a number of spatially ordered agents (farms) compete in an auction
for renting land. Each agent’s behavior is determined by a genetic...
Polish distant water fisheries reached a crisis in the 90s. Thereby the present paper provides a charactwristic
of distant water fisheries where their main problems and possible solutions are briefly defined.
The transition process from the Soviet economical system to the market economy in fisheries has received
relatively little attention from fisheries researchers. This study analyze how overall changes in political and economical life
of Estonia during the last decade have affected the complex system of the environmental, economic, social and...
1999 marks the end of the first decade after the reestablishment of a free Poland and of the Polish market economy. Tremendous changes have been undertaken, and the seafood sector is no exception to ther general rule; it has changed to an extent that no one could have foreseen at...
This essay deliberates on the future of capitalism or, more specifically, the mixture of command and market likely
to characterize the modern economy two to three decades on. I start by discussing global trends in the supply and demand for
market and non-market goods and the collateral demand for institutions,...
This is a brief review of the development of the Russian fisheries during the twentieth century from a fresh water
fishery to a marine fishery and the effect of the change in economic systems upon its fisheries. Of particular interest are the
similarities of change following the October revolution in...