The political economy of Japanese distant water tuna fisheries

This paper first describes the development of Japan's tuna fisheries, outli nes the constraints facing these fisheries and identifies strategies to man age these constraints. A case study of the southern bluefin tuna fishery in dicates the significance of the challenges facing Japanese tuna fisheries. 'It is too early to pronounce that the sun has set on one of Japan's most s uccessful distant water fisheries - there tire avenues for adjustment. The difficult process of domestic restructuring is occurring at the same time t hat Japan is having to address significant external constraints on this ind ustry.' (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.