Sum. (En, Fr)

The Northeast-Asian market economies (Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) depend heavily on imports from other countries for the raw materials to meet their demands for fish and forest products. Thus, they have been particularly vulnerable to changes in resource management withing the exporting countries. The responses by the Northeast-Asian market economies reflect their differing industrial strategies. For example, South Korea,s strategy in the fishing industry is to create foreign exchange through exports, whereas Japan's is to produce food for a majority of its people. Some of the positive side-effects of the tighter control on fish and forest resources are more intensive efforts in fish culture and in reforestation, especially in Japan and Southeast Asia