Five not so easy pieces : globalization of fishing and seafood markets ...

• Main Author: Swartz, Wilfram
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2013
• Subjects: Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0073704; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0073704

Over the past 60 years, the world’s marine fisheries have more than quadrupled their total output from 20 million t to around 80 million t. Yet, a closer examination of the catch statistics, as conducted in this thesis, reveals that this increase was achieved by geographical expansion of the global fisheries from the coastal waters off North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific to the waters in the Southern Hemisphere and into the high seas. The globalization of fisheries coincides with the globalization of seafood markets and an analysis of trade statistics carried out in this dissertation indicates net flows of marine fisheries resources into the markets of the EU, Japan and USA with their “consumption footprints” covering most of the world’s ocean. Recognizing the global limit to growth, various international initiatives have been launched in recent years to improve the state of world’s marine fisheries. This thesis examines fisheries subsidies negotiations at the World Trade Organization and its failure to ...