The Spanish Tuna Industry in Tropical Waters: From the African Atlantic to the Indian and the Pacific Oceans (1984-2015)

Rafael Uriarte Ayo ()
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Rafael Uriarte Ayo: Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain

No 2012, Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) from Asociación Española de Historia Económica

Abstract: The 1980s marked a turning point in the trajectory of the Spanish purse seine tuna freezer industry. Probably the most outstanding aspect was the extension of the fishery to the Western Indian Ocean from 1984. In the Pacific, where it had a presence since the 1970s, the activity was not really significant until the late 1990s. The expansion of the fishery to increasingly distant places, less well known and without connection to the home base ports, required new technological developments and changes in the size of the vessels and the shipping companies. On the other hand, Spain's entry into the EU (1986), the widespread extension of the EEZs to 200 miles (1982), the opening of new markets and the relocation of the canning industry to Asian and Latin American countries, forced to rethink the conditions of entry of the fleet in the different fishing grounds, the negotiating strategies with the coastal countries and the commercial structures of the companies.

Keywords: oceanic tuna vessels; purse seiners; fishing industry; globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N50 Q13 Q22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 70 pages
Date: 2020-12
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