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The Tuna 'Commodity frontier': Business strategies and environment in the industrial tuna fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean

Campling, Liam (2012) The Tuna 'Commodity frontier': Business strategies and environment in the industrial tuna fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean. Journal of Agrarian Change.

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Abstract

An industrial fishery is a geographical area of operation of a complex of capitals whose form of organization is the firm and whose medium of operation is fishing vessels. Tuna fisheries are among the most highly capitalized and valuable fisheries in the world. This paper distinguishes between two relations that function simultaneously at the point of production in capture fisheries to investigate an empirical account of a 'commodity frontier' in tuna (Moore 2010a,b). The first is the vertical relationship between capital and the environmental conditions of production. The second is the horizontal relations between competing fishing firms as they transform nature to produce commodities for the world market. The paper traces the emergence of the European tuna fleet in its search for new commodity frontiers, from the Bay of Biscay (1860s) to the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (1950s) and the Western Indian Ocean (1980s).

Item Type: Documents
Class Number: 400.TUN008
Keywords: Tuna, EU, Industrial Fisheries, Capture Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Western Indian Ocean, Environmental Impact, History, Fisheries Trade, Fish Marketing, Migration, Flag State, Port State Control, Purse Seines
Subjects: Right to Resources
Depositing User: Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited: 15 Jul 2022 04:52
Last Modified: 15 Jul 2022 04:52
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/15229

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