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Tuna-Led Sustainable Development in the Pacific: WORKING PAPER

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Updated 24/06/2025

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This record describes, and links to a working paper published through the Economics and Environment Network at The Australian National University in Canberra.

The paper reviews the importance of tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and examines whether current and proposed economically focussed institutional mechanisms, that underpin tuna management, are sufficient to promote appropriate and long term tuna-led development. Substantial potential gains are shown to exist from co-operation in terms of tuna management, but it seems highly unlikely such benefits will be realised in the short or medium term despite the formation in 2004 of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission. Even if gains from co-operation were to be realised, without substantial improvements in the institutional quality and capacity of many PICs the tuna fisheries might still fail to sustain the regions long-term development. The studys implications are that the twin development priorities in the region should be support for social infrastructure, especially capacity building to increase the effectiveness of the public sector, and the promotion of co-operative approaches to ensure the sustainability and profitable use of the region's shared fishery resources.

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Title Tuna-Led Sustainable Development in the Pacific: WORKING PAPER
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ddc6d38b-3092-453f-bc99-b8fbd3604283
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
quentin.grafton@anu.edu.au
Reference Period 17/12/2014
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Tuna-Led Sustainable Development in the Pacific: WORKING PAPER". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tuna-led-sustainable-development-in-the-pacific-working-paper