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Title
Fish as vehicle for economic development in post-independence Namibia |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/10202/299 |
Date
1997 |
Author(s)
Sumaila, Ussif Rashid |
Abstract
A key fishery policy issue decided by the new government of Namibia soon after independence in 1990 relates to the division of the total allowable catch for hake between wetfish and freezer trawlers. Using economic and social arguments, the government decided to use a criterion of 60:40 in favour of wetfish trawlers. The main question I pursue in this paper is, is this criterion economically sensible? How would the answer to this question be modified if, say, the employment generation capacity of the fishery were to be taken into consideration? The study suggests that based on purely economic and employment generation criteria, only the wetfish traw1ers should be allowed to exploit the resource. However, the impact of other considerations such as biological, market, harvesting, and processing constraints tend to lend support to the current government policy. |
Subject(s)
Economic development; Fishery policy; Hake; Employment; Namibia |
Language
en |
Publisher
Chr. Michelsen Institute |
Relation
CMI Working paper; WP 1997: 11 |
Type of publication
Working Paper |
Identifier
0804-3639 |
Repository
Bergen - Christian Michelsen Institute
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