碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 海洋資源管理研究所 / 95 / At the 19th Regular Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (hereinafter referred to as ICCAT) held in November 2005, the Commission adopted Recommendation 05-02, which requires the number of fishing vessels under Chinese Taipei’s registry authorized to conduct a directed fishery for bigeye tuna and albacore tuna in the Convention area shall be limited to no more than 15 and 60 respectively in 2006. Besides, the catch limit of Atlantic bigeye tuna for Chinese Taipei in 2006 shall also be limited at the level of 4,600 tons. In addition, the Commission also asks Chinese Taipei for taking actions in compliance with the additional requirements in the Attachment of the Resolution, including vessel reduction by scrapping 160 fishing vessels grater than 24 meters and strengthening the management of small scale fishing vessels.
This research is aiming to explore the reasons why ICCAT determinately decided to adopt the Resolution against Taiwan, and to explore the extent of effect on Taiwan tuna fishing industry that the Resolution has caused. For being consistent with the Resolution, only 15 fishing vessels were authorized to fish for bigeye tuna in the Atlantic Ocean in 2006. Due to fishing pattern and the arrangement applied on fishing vessels in 2006 totally different from the years in the past, the study on the business running of fishing vessel is made on the basis of 220 tons bigeye catch quota allocated to individual vessel in 2006 comparing to the vessel in 2005. The research is conducted by using the method of Break-even analysis to analyze the cost-efficiency of vessels operation and by using the method of SWOT to analyze the impact on the fishing industry. From the results, it is found that the quota of bigeye tuna allocated to Taiwan is not commensurate with the fishing capacity of Taiwanese fishing fleet.
The reasons for the adoption of the Resolution 05-02 by ICCAT are due mainly to part of Taiwan’s fishing vessels not complying with the international fisheries management measures, so as to be accused by Japan of engaging in IUU/FOC fish laundering. In 2006, the bigeye tuna quota allocation 4,600 tons are not enough to maintain normal operation of 72 ultra-low temperature tuna fishing vessels in the Atlantic Ocean. Among the 15 vessels targeting on bigeye tuna in the Atlantic, each vessel can share only 220 tons quota of bigeye tuna. However, the domestic administrative fishing regulations stipulated by the government, requiring that the fishing vessels enter port for inspection every three months and deploy observer on board each vessel, seemingly interrupted the fishing activities of the vessels. The actual fishing days and catch for each vessel on an average is 180 days and 163 tons respectively, a decrease of 73 fishing days comparing to the previous year (2005), while an increase of 163 tons of catch vice versa.
As regards the impact on the fishing industry, the private sector and the government need to jointly assume the responsibility for the payment in dealing with vessel reduction and other related expenditure, thereby having direct impact on the employment which temporarily causes job loss of 3,000 workers, thus subsequently incurring the problem of bearing their families subsistence, as well as escalating the tension between Japan and Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095NTOU5277009 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Joey Chen, 陳穎 |
| Contributors | Ching-Ta Chuang, 莊慶達 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 83 |
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