Aquaculture Policies for Global Competitiveness: An Industry Perspective

Rayner’s “Governance for Global Competitiveness” identifies some key governance problems for aquaculture in Canada and proposes some specific courses of action. The paper identifies the need for innovative public policy and a more collaborative approach to governance. Rayner suggests that a rapidly changing environment and globalization are causing the older “authoritative co-ordination” and “regulatory state” models to break down. Rayner also argues that government efforts to reform aquaculture policy have met with little success, at least partly attributable to the difficulty of creating policies to bridge effectively the many jurisdictional boundaries present in the Canadian model of confederation.