This document presents an analytical review of the Atlantic fishery. It focuses on causes and effects of profitability, profitability drivers, utilization of resources, the capacity to service debt, the financial position, and overcapacity. It looks at the sustainable fish processing industry. It focuses on the industry as it is, defining a sustainable industry, the industry structure required to achieve target return on assets, the industry structure resulting from elimination of non-productive assets, employment implications, the impact of differing resource scenarios, and the potential to modify the industry. Finally, it looks at issues of restructuring.
This document reflects on aspects of current policies, especially their underlying principles and assumptions, from a variety of perspectives, and comments on their theoretical and practical implications. It is intended to be both realistic and thought provoking, to be concerned with specific needs expressed by the industry as well as with broad principles and constructs, considered within the present policy context, resource conditions, and economic realities of the Atlantic Canadian fishery.
Study to analyze historical data from the 1980s and to address some of the fundamental issues regarding the stability of incomes in the Atlantic fishery. The study discusses the nature of income instability; reviews past studies of, and proposals for, income stabilization in the fishery; discusses the methodology used, including the use of longitudinal population files; analyses the income variability of the longitudinal population by sector and income class, and compares income variability in the fishery with that in other sectors of the economy, including the income profiles of self-employed fishermen and plantworkers; and provides some policy options to address income variability in the Atlantic fishery while making distinctions between options for self-employed fishermen and for fish processing employees.
Access to a continuous supply of high quality raw material is fundamental to the long-run success of any manufacturing enterprise. But discontinuity of raw material supply is a major problem in the fishing industry. This paper focuses on processing plants relying on inshore vessels because they face the greatest continuity of supply difficulties, given the range of natural, regulatory and competitive factors at work. The analysis begins with an examination of the causes and effects of supply discontinuity focussing on conditions in the harvesting sector. The response of the processors is examined next, with reviews of capital expansion and efforts to secure direct access to the resource. Finally, current circumstances in the fishery together with options for dealing with resource access and supply continuity are set out.
The purpose of this background paper is to provide an historic profile of access to the fishery during the period 1977-92, as reflected in DFO statistics of registered fishermen, vessels, and species licences. In addition it provides a chronology of events, many of which affected access to the resource.
This document presents a financial overview of the Atlantic fishery. It focuses on the peaks and troughs of permanence in fish processing, profitability, productivity, debt service, and overcapacity in fish processing. It looks at the sustainable core fishery models, including the sustainable capital investment model and the direct labour model. It also discusses the determination of the core fishery, focusing on the dimensions of a sustainable industry and a summary of potential job displacement. Finally, it presents a discussion on the modified core fishery.
This report reviews professionalization policies and programmes for fishers in Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces, identifying salient policy and programme options, and recommending programme models and implementation strategies for professionalization of fishers in the context of the Atlantic fishery.
This document discusses the economic role of women in the fishing communities, their working conditions in the fishery, their alternative to the fishery, and their career development and self-esteem. It presents information on the federal government's northern cod moratorium. It assesses the impact and effectiveness of NCARP to meet the needs of women. It looks not only at the financial needs of women, but their emotional and psychological needs as well. It provides recommendations and conclusions.
In the past decade several countreis have implemented management regimes in fisheries that assign property rights to individual fishers and companies. This study reviews the theory and practical experience with these programmes and their applicability to Canada. These property rights can take the form of territorial use rights in fisheries (TURFs) or individual transferable quotas (ITQs). This study is organized into 3 parts. A general review of the theoretical advantages of ITQs is provided followed by the positive and negative experiences of ITQ management under different criteria (economic efficiency, employment, harvest shares of fishers, and quota regulation compliance) and in various fisheries. Finally, a summary of the issues with respect to expanding ITQs in the Atlantic inshore fisheries is presented along with a discussion on how the programme may be designed.
This paper explores various measures of attachment to the fishery using several data sources and approaches. The underlying objective was to provide the Task Force with some hard facts on how many people participate in the fishery, what is the nature of their attachment over a period of time and whether or not there is a group of fishers which are variously defined as core, full-time, bonafide and professional.
The purpose of this report was to survey policies and programmes having to do with the professionalization of fishers in a select group of developed fishing nations other than Canada. This will lead to the identification of strategies and options that might be employed in the Atlantic fishery. To help make contextual sense of the specific options, the industry structure and the major issues and trends in the fishery in each country will be briefly described. The countries examines are Iceland, Norway, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. There is also a brief commentary on policy developments in the European Community.
This paper reviews the unemployment insurance (UI) programs available to Atlantic fishermen and plant employees and analyzes their experience with UI from 1981-90. The discussion relates this experience to the design features of UI, and draws conclusions on how UI might be made to work more effectively for the fishery. The paper reviews the regular UI and fishing benefits UI available to those in the fishery and compares the design features of the two. A discussion of the weaknesses of UI programs for the fishery is given. UI experience in the fishery is analyzed using cross-sectional data and is compared with experience of those in other sectors of the Atlantic Province's economy. Individual experiences using longitudinal data files of people who working in the fishery are also included. Appendices include detailed tables, a chronology of changes to the UI program from 1940-93, and a description of the methodology of data construction.
The purpose of this feasibility study of the Integrated Registration and Reporting System for the Atlantic Fishery (IRRS) was to provide an overview of existing systems and manual processes to be replaced; identify gaps and overlaps in these systems; describe the means by which data could be captured for IRRS and provide examples of how data capture could be integrated into the existing fish sales process; describe how the Fish Landings Registry might operate; identify barriers to developing and implementing a system; and identify possible stages in the IRRS development and implementation. This report focusses on 3 alternative versions of an IRRS.
Task Force on Incomes and Adjustment in the Atlantic Fishery
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