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| Title: | The Political Economy of Euro-African Fishing Agreements |
| Author: | Iheduru, Okechukwu C. |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Developing Areas |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | October |
| Pages: | 63-89 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | political economy European Union international agreements marine fisheries Politics and Government Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment international relations |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4192520 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311651869 |
| Abstract: | Over the past two decades there have been a series of agreements between the European Union (EU) and several African coastal States granting access to the latter's pelagic fisheries resources to European fishermen. This paper examines the political and economic dimensions of these agreements so as to ascertain their benefits and shortcomings in the light of the present phase of Africa's economic and technological development and its place in the global order. The study argues that the basic premise of the Euro-African fishing agreements since the late 1970s does not encourage the sustainable development and management of the region's fisheries. An analysis of the most important fishing agreements reveals that they have resulted in a further widening of economic gaps; personal enrichment of facilitators of foreign capital investment and public officials; and greater marginalization of local fishermen and women. Most of the benefits have tended to flow to EU-based fishing companies. Options for a better development and management of the region's fisheries include limiting access to resources, increasing fines, improving enforcement capabilities, diversification of fishing agreement partners, divestiture of State fishing activities, and renewed efforts for the creation of an indigenous private sector-led marine regionalism. Notes, ref. |