碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 應用經濟研究所 / 95 / At the annual meeting of ICCAT 2005, Japan strongly urged other member countries to enforce a trade sanction against Taiwan, and the resolution #ICCAT05-02 impacting Taiwan tuna fishing industry was therefore made with a punitive decrease in quota as high as 70% affecting about 2.5 billion NT dollars in output value. Subsequently, the strength of enforcement and management in response to this made by Taiwan fishery regulatory authority was finally accepted by all member countries, and the resolution #ICCAT05-02 was replaced by #ICCAT06-01, in which the quota of Taiwan for bigeye tuna was returned to the level of 14,900 tons in 2004.
This study first reviews the contents of resolutions of ICCAT relating to Taiwan tuna fishing industry management from 2004 to 2006, then analyzes their impacts on Taiwan fishery regulatory authority and tuna fishing industry. Finally, in-depth interviews are conducted with the commissioners and senior members of the Operating Commissions for Three Oceans of Taiwan Tuna Association on the regulatory measures of the government, so as to provide our suggestions to the government and our future expectations for the industry.
All commissioners of the Operating Commissions for Three Oceans unanimously indicated that the existing operation regulations for three oceans should be reasonably amended, including the removal of the restriction on fishing areas and reasonably allowing the enterprises to transfer freely their allocated quota.
This study investigated the cost-effectiveness of the four groups of operations that Atlantic tuna fishing enterprises of Taiwan faced in 2006 – the group continuing fishing for Bigeye tuna, the group switching to albacore fishing, the group suspending fishing, and the group reducing number of vessles. The study found the group continuing fishing for Bigeye tuna is relatively more favorable. However, without the coordination of the other three groups, it is difficult to meet the requirements of the resolution #ICCAT05-02, allowing the international organization to reevaluate the management ability of our government.
Nevertheless, all problems can not be resolved by reducing the number of vessls only. Besides reviewing some regulatory measures of the fishery authority, this study also makes three concrete and feasible recommendations to maximize economic benefit, i.e., to reasonably utilize all fleets and tuna quotas of our country so as to increase the international competitiveness of the industry, as follows: 1) Adopt ITQ system, avoid symmetrical equality, and amend unreasonable and impractical operation regulations for three oceans, so that the enterprises can flexibly utilize the quota; 2) Set up fleet import/export mechanism under OPRT framework, and amend fishing ship import/export rules, in order to reduce the size of fleet; and 3) Assist enterprises to be legally localized in member countries of district international organization, so that not only the size of Taiwan’s tuna fishing fleet can be reduced, they can also help the target country and reasonably utilize their quota. Nevertheless, the government should carefully enact "Regulations Governing Investment in Non-ROC Fishing Vessels by Nationals" to avoid the suppressing legal investment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095NTOU5452005 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Yuan-Chung Lee, 李元中 |
| Contributors | 孫金華 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 178 |
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