A Study on The Analysis of Fishery Subsidy in Taiwan and The Adjustment of Economic Policy

• Main Authors: Li-Wen Ko, 戈立文
• Other Authors: 陳郁蕙
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86061428193353492508

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農業經濟學研究所 === 94 === To maintain the development of their fishery sector, many countries enforce various subsidies to meet their domestic needs. Fishery resources are renewable resources, but people usually regard them as resources that will never run out and overfishing issues often occur. Moreover, the subsidies provided by government lower the production cost, which made the overfishing problems even worse. It is time to face the issue of fishery resources exhaustion, and fishery subsidies should be examined as well. Therefore, many experts and international institutes start to have researches on their fields. Although at present there are plenty of opinions toward the fishing subsidies, it is thought that the reform is necessary and should be made with international cooperation. The Taiwan’s fishery budget has been reclassified according to OECD standard. The average annual budget reached 5,225 million NTD during 1992-2005 periods, and the proportion of vessel fuel subsidy contributed to 42.11% of the whole fishery budget. Therefore, reducing or cancelling the vessel fuel subsidies in the future may affect the fishery sector significantly. According to the empirical analysis, it shows that the production values of offshore and coastal fishery value of boats below 20 tonnes will be the largest losers if we decrease the vessel fuel subsidy. The impact of vessel fuel subsidy reduction on the production value of boats between 20-50 tonnes is next to the boats below 20 tonnes. The influence on the boats between 50-100 tonnes is the smallest. The impacts of policy adjustments are also simulated in this research. Our findings suggest that if the government cancels the vessel fuel subsidy, the production value of offshore and coastal fishery will decrease from 17,089 million NTD to 10,938 million NTD, representing a 35.99% decrease from the headline. Key words: fishery subsidy, fishery policy, technical rate of substitution