The Evolution of the Fishing Industry and Fisheries Management in the Russian Far East Context, Calamities, Continuity (Six Decades in Ten Minutes)

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The Evolution of the Fishing Industry and
Fisheries Management in the Russian Far
EastContext, Calamities, Continuity(Six
Decades in Ten Minutes)

• Tony Allison

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Summary The Four Recent Epochs of RFE Fisheries
and Their Meaning for Today

• The Soviet legacy will nostalgia trump
  rationality?
• The wild 1990s was it all bad?
• The era of failed reforms 2000-2007 why did
  reforms fail and what was learned?
• The current period of renewed reform déjà vu all
  over again and why is that guys name Krainyi?

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The Soviet Legacy

• Fleet build-up and deployment worldwide
• Harvests, products, markets
• Centralized fisheries management in a command
  economy
• Science technically strong, well-endowed, and a
  partner to industry
• The salmon sector products, producers,
  processors, and kolkhozniki
• Pride and prestige the intangible factor?

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The Wild 90s

• Collapse and privatization the short-term view
• Decentralization and weakening of management
• Science impoverished and dependent on industry
• Flood of foreign capital, ships, and new markets
• Transformation of harvests and products
• Offshore operations and illegal fishing
• Salmon new players, new rules, new hatcheries
• Modernization and foreign ties get a bad name?

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The Era of Failed Reforms 2000-2007

• Changing management structure/bosses
• Revising allocation systems
• The exit of (most) foreign interests
• New players, new rules, worse results
• Harvests, products, markets, illegal fishing
• The new Law on Fisheries success?
• Salmon some progress, many problems
• Why is reform so difficult ? Who benefits?
• (the perspectives of the regulator and user)

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The Key Aspects of Fisheries Management RFE
Evaluation?(Predictability, Stability,
Incentives)

• Assessment
• Allocation/Administration
• Enforcement

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The Current Period of Renewed Reform

• A State Committee (again) and its local branches
• A new boss is he really Krainyi? Does it
  matter?
• The Astrakhan-Putin Conference, and some of its
  directives
• -allocations for ten years (no transfers!)
• -fewer companies and quotas
• -get rid of the foreigners and end illegal
  fishing
• -fund and re-centralize science
• -bring industry onshore by easing
  regulations/taxes
• -nostalgia Goskorporatsiia, world fishing, new
  ships
• -salmon more local control, long-term leases
• Prospects for reform, underlying problems
• (discussion)

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