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Bureaucracy, Policy, Economics: The Pathology of Fisheries
After declining rapidly because of low fish stocks in the early 1970s, the Newfoundland fishery — harvesting and processing facilities, and employment — expanded severalfold during the four years following adoption of the 200-mile limit. The expansion collapsed into bankruptcy during the 1981 recession. Through government intervention the industry was saved, only to collapse again, through stock decimation, a decade later. The growth of the 1970s bore the seeds of the collapse of the 1990s. How did the fishery bureaucracy, politics and economics interact to permit the expansion when it was recognized by nearly everyone concerned that the fishery was already overcapitalized and that more factors, capital and labor, were not required to catch and process the increased anticipated harvests?Keywords: fisheries management, overcapacity, 200-mile limi
A case study in surface mining simulation with special reference to the problem of model evaluation
A organização do desembarque e o comércio de pescado na década de 1990 em Manaus, Amazonas Landing and fish commercialization in the decade of 1990 in the Manaus fishing harbor, Amazonas, Brazil
A maior parte da produção pesqueira do Estado do Amazonas é desembarcada em Manaus, entretanto, as características de organização do apoio à produção e da comercialização neste centro, pouco têm sido avaliadas ou consideradas nas discussões para o desenvolvimento do setor. O presente trabalho visa apresentar estas características de forma a estabelecer um referencial histórico sobre a organização do desembarque pesqueiro em Manaus e para subsidiar o planejamento do setor. Entrevistas foram efetuadas com diversos atores deste setor, de forma a cobrir o mosaico de alternativas que existem para o abastecimento de pescado. Há quatro tipos de agentes de comercialização atacadista de pescado para Manaus: o barco de pesca, o despachante, o atravessador e os frigoríficos. O despachante aparece como ator central no processo produtivo pesqueiro no período, seja por financiar as viagens e operações de comercialização, ou por executar a ligação entre os produtores-pescadores e os comerciantes de pescado. Exceção a esta regra ocorre com o "pescador ribeirinho autônomo", o qual pesca com seus próprios meios e comercializa sua produção com compradores sem intermediação. No comércio varejista, os feirantes são os mais importantes, sendo a Feira da Panair responsável por cerca de 20% do abastecimento do pescado in natura em Manaus. Os supermercados e os pequenos comerciantes são os demais agentes varejistas, cuja participação na comercialização da produção era ainda pequena, porém financeiramente é maior visto que disponibilizam produtos com valor agregado e portanto preços maiores a mercados de classe média que o dos feirantes.<br>Manaus is the main commercial center for fish prodution in the state of Amazonas. However, its characteristics of commercialization have not been evaluated in order to assist the development of the fishery sector. The present paper presents these characteristics to establish a historical referential about this organization and to subsidize governmental planning. Interviews were performed with several players, in order to cover the alternatives that exists for fish provisioning. There are four types of agents of fish wholesalers in Manaus: the fishing boat, the middleman-auctioneer, the middleman-seller and the freezing house. The middleman-auctioneer is a central agent. He finances the fishing trips and the commercialization operations or act as the middleman between the producer-fishermen and fish merchants. Exception to this rule is the autonomous riverine fishers, who uses personal resources, including boat and gear. This fisher sells prodution to consumers without intermediaries. In the retail trade, the street market salesman is the most important, considering that the Panair Fish Market in Manaus is responsible for providing about 20% of the fish in natura in Manaus. Supermarkets and small merchants are other retail agents. Although their participation in commercialization of the prodution is small, financially it is not small due to the fact that they sell to middle class markets fish with joint value with higher prices than those of the street market salesman