"It is certainly not up to Joe Hockey to allocate concession arrangements provided by the states... and it seems increasingly unlikely the states will maintain those concessions for people who aren't pensioners any more," he said.
Estimation results show that fishermen welcome any regulation initiative that is characterized by: (1) banning all fishing activities during the night, (2) allocating fishing concessions areas to each fishermen in a way that minimize the distance between the fishing area and the harbor, and (3) by introducing of a labeling mechanism that certifies the origin of the product.
The lines are built by the Land Transport Authority, a statutory board of the Government of Singapore, which allocates operating concessions to the profit-based corporations, SMRT Corporation and SBS Transit.
Li (2007) in her study of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, cited one study that found "land allocated to large-scale plantations was 1.2 million hectares; land allocated to timber concessions and industrial timber plantations was 2.2 million hectares; land under protected forests and wildlife reserves was 2.5 million hectares; and land granted as mining concessions was 1.1 million hectares.
Some 85% of the park has been allocated as oil concessions by the DRC but WWF says Soco is the only company moving forward with exploration plans.
Nearly all of such predominantly pastoralist districts such as Longido, Monduli, and Simanjiro are allocated as hunting concessions, covering an area of at least 35,000 km2.
Commercial logging is prevalent throughout much of the Congo Basin, with over 30% of native forest allocated to logging concessions, compared to only 12% under protection [24].
During the last decade, the timber industry has thrived in central Africa and many of the remaining forests have been allocated to timber concessions.
According to this new regulation, the plantations can no longer allocate 20%% of their concessions for plasma farming; they must find this outside their concession.
Across more than 7m hectares – an area equivalent to the Republic of Ireland – licences for the same concessions have been allocated to as many as four palm, pulpwood, logging or coal mining companies at a time.
The Commission said large fleets should be allocated transferable catch shares, called "concessions", which they would be able to trade, in response to local conditions.
