Table 3 Disparate motivations shaping FAA participant behaviors
From: A geopolitical-economy of distant water fisheries access arrangements
Resource-seeker motivations | Resource-owner motivations |
|---|---|
• Profit maximization for firms ◦ Includes corruption (e.g. bribery) • Protecting/ expanding domestic industry ◦ Strategic raw material access in response to risk (e.g., environmental depletion) ◦ Industrial strategy ◦ Maintain employment in domestic fishing and processing • Geopolitical influence ◦ Diplomacy ◦ Maritime reach ◦ Fisheries management and ocean governance ◦ Security ◦ Other economic and political mechanisms • Response to domestic constituents (e.g., conservation, fisheries-related industry associations, workers) | • Rent maximization for public sector • Increase domestic fisheries-based economic activities ◦ Employment ◦ Tax revenue ◦ Higher value-added industries ◦ Complementary industries • Leadership in oceans governance ◦ Fisheries management • Geopolitical relations ◦ Securing aid ◦ Trade relations • Private gain (corruption) • Building regional networks and South-South cooperation |
