Rights-based management in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fishery: Economic and environmental change under the Vessel Day Scheme

The structure of tuna access agreements

The structure of tuna access agreements in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Lessons for Vessel Day Scheme planning

✍ Elizabeth Havice 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 298 KB

The tuna industry in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) is one of the largest and most valuable fisheries in the world. Since the 1980s, Pacific island countries have used licensing agreements with foreign fishing interests-known as access agreements-to earn tuna-related revenue and contro