The use and management of fish supplies, fish stocks and those who work in fishing and related businesses needs to be governed by good policies and actions, based as far as possible on good research-based advice and other expert information. Fisheries policy makers and managers work in a milieu that...
The Japanese tuna fisheries was transformed into an importing industry after the middle of the 1990s because of competition from Chinese Taipei. The Japanese distant water tuna longline fisheries carried out a "20% reduction in the number of fishing vessels (Gensen) without mutual compensation" in 1998 in order to implement...