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The new economic model and fisheries development in Latin America
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The Political Economy of Marine Fisheries Development in Peru, Chile and Mexico
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Latin American fish production has expanded significantly in recent years. Unfortunately, as management systems in the three major Latin American fish producing countries have not developed at the same pace, all three countries now experience problems of overfishing and industrial overcapitalisation. This article examines the distinctive national fisheries development programmes that have led to this ' tragedy of the oceans '. By comparing and contrasting the Peruvian, Chilean and Mexican management styles, it offers a critical assessment regarding the likely direction of future Latin American fisheries policy.
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The linkages between neo-liberalism and the fisheries sector in three of Latin America's principal fishing nations are examined. The paper shows how macroeconomic policies have not only re-inforced the sector's traditional export orientation but also permitted increased private participation in harvesting and processing. Production and export growth was facilitated by the absence of an effective regulatory framework as the belief that fish stocks were plenteous (following the designation of 200 mile Economic Exclusion Zones in the 1970s) encouraged governments to permit open access fisheries regimes. The belated recognition that there were indeed 'limits to growth' spawned a series of fisheries laws in the early-1990s which have sought to re-regulate the sector. To date these efforts have been largely unsuccessfuland the principal regional fisheries are presently both overcapitalised and dangerously overfished.
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