| Summary | Nation states that have ratified contracting status with ICCAT or acting as a non-contracting cooperative party. |
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| Project | SESMAD |
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| Subtype | Nation |
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| Sector | Fisheries (Stock-specific) |
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| Interest Heterogeneity | High (3) |
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| Explanation | Interests among group members vary along several dimensions. This includes the variations in the magnitude of ABFT fishing operations, whether they are consumers (mostly Japan) or simply appropriators (the rest). Reliance on tuna by fishermen also vary considerably across countries, with greater reliance in Spain in particular. |
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| Costs Of Exit | Yes |
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| Explanation | If members choose to leave ICCAT they lose the ability to trade bluefin tuna with other contracting parties, most notably Japan. |
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| Proportionality (Of Costs And Benefits) | Yes |
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| Explanation | There is some proportionality between contributions to ICCAT and the amount of benefits, however, not included in these costs are the monitoring costs that are performed at the National Level. In any case 4 groups are identified, Parties identified as developed market economies pay the most, while payments by non-developed economies depend upon combinations of their GNP and catches. The poorest countries with catches below 5000t pay 0.25% of the budget each, while countries that exceed GNP of 2,000 or harvest more than 5000t pay 3,00% each. |
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| Actor Group Coordination | Both formal and informal |
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| Explanation | ICCAT has developed a formal process for analyzing fisheries data and producing recommendations. Recommendations are evaluated by contracting parties in both formal and informal settings, and final quotas are the result of formal and informal bargaining processes. |
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| Leadership | No leader |
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| Explanation | There is no formal or informal leader |
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| Past Collaboration | High (3) |
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| Explanation | ICCAT was created in 1966, and began to undertake management activities for fisheries among member states in 1969. It has a long history of coordinating regulation of fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean and over time has regulated an increasing number of fisheries and added a number of additional contracting parties. |
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| Personal Communication | More than once a year (5) |
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| Remote Communication | More than once a year (5) |
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