Other than fishing licence and registration is there any coastal country taxing exploitation based on quantity of resources exploited or proportion of revenue generated.
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In our country (Türkiye), there is no direct tax on sea fishing. There are indirect taxes. For example, the fuel used by fishing vessels is taxed. In the inland water fishing, there is an exploiting fee in the lakes.
In our country Pakistan the inland Public water bodies ( rivers, canals, dams) are leased out on annual basis and the contractors catch fish and sell in the market.The government collect revenue from the leases of fishing rights.
The anglers get licence (on payment of licence fee) from government and catch fish.
An overview of New Zealand's application of 'resource rentals' in the commercial fishery can be found here: https://fs.fish.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/95C26F05-1315-4CB0-A0DC-ECE6020175D2/0/qms_chapter_06_recovering_costs_from_industry.pdf. Commercial fishers also pay deemed values to the government for quota species they catch but lack quota for (it is illegal to dump quota species).
An overview of New Zealand's Quota Management System can be found here: https://www.nature.org/media/asia-pacific/new-zealand-fisheries-quota-management.pdf
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