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The catastrophe in Atlantic fisheries resource management in the 1990s has had important national and international implications that we would ignore at our peril. What lessons can be learned from the disappearance of cod from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland? Can we apply this knowledge to help explain the recent disappearance of millions of salmon off the coast of British Columbia? While Atlantic Canada is the specific focus of the papers in this book, the problems addressed are global. A fundamental reorientation of the economics of fisheries management is needed in which far greater prominence is given to the role of uncertainty. The papers in this volume were first presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association held in June 1994 at the University of Calgary. Economists and applied mathematicians from both academia and government have contributed to this volume. With Contributions by: Diane P. Dupont R. Quentin Grafton Daniel E. Lane Tim Lauck Paul Macgillivray Gordon R. Munro Halldor P. Palsson Noel Roy William E Schrank Eugene Tsoa

“Economics of Fisheries Management- A Critique in Third World Perspective” is a bold atempt to review, classify and discuss the theory and practice of fisheries management on a global basis, with special emphasis on the third world perspective. Thematically it has presented this in seven chapters, beginning with an introduction and progressing through a delineation of the various theories, objectives, techniques and criteria of fisheries management and management institutions. Significantly, this book finds an element of contemplation on the part of the developed countries and their protege international organisation to manipulate the management theory, institutions and practices to suit the interests of the developed world. It has kept a critical watch on this aspect of fisheries management theor (global theory) as propagated by the FAO and its coterie international organisations and warned the third world of its consequences. The book is rich in its structural frameworkd and content. Its bibliographic coverage is extensive. Being the first of its kind in India and abroad, it should be of critical interest to academics, administrators and policy makers alike in the field all over the world.

This book describes how various types of taxes -- such as VATs, corporate income taxes, retail sales taxes, and excise taxes -- are being modified to achieve environmental goals. The author gives particular focus to situations in which taxes are imposed on imports and where rebates are granted when domestic products are exported. These taxes are evaluated with respect to exceptions to GATT and how these exceptions can be used to create powerful tax initiatives even though they might be considered'GATT-illegal'. The book shows how to integrate economically effective environmental taxes and tax subsidies with the major international trade treaties. Tax initiatives can be an important tool to improve the free trade system and combat environmental decline. Manufacturers, exporters, tax and environmental policymakers, international trade and tax attorneys, and academics working in the fields of environmental regulation, trade policy, and taxation will find this work a provocative treatise on a topic of growing importance.

This volume is an important and timely analysis of past and current Canadian policies toward both the formal and less formal arrangements which regulate such areas as international trade and financial transactions, international service industries, fisheries resources, and the environment.