Chinese fisheries enforcement: Environmental and strategic implications

Goldstein, Lyle J.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.007

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“…Additionally, monitoring inputs are overall sparse and uncoordinated [ Fig. 3 ; ( 41 , 42 )], leading to other management challenges, such as unregistered and illegal fishing vessels, limited data quantity and quality, and habitat degradation and juvenile exploitation due to the use of restricted fishing gears ( 43 , 44 ). This constraint may further complicate the tasks of monitoring shifting fishery resources and making informed decisions about catch quota setting for climate-ready fisheries management.…”

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Social–ecological vulnerability and risk of China’s marine capture fisheries to climate change

Li,

Sun,

Yang

et al. 2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Climate change is a new disrupter to global fisheries systems and their governance frameworks. It poses a pressing management challenge, particularly in China, which is renowned as the world’s largest fishing country and seafood producer. As climate change continues to intensify in the region and climate awareness grows within the country’s national policy, the need to understand China’s fisheries’ resilience to the escalating climate crisis becomes paramount. In this study, we conduct an interdisciplinary analysis to assess the vulnerability and risk of China’s marine capture fisheries in response to climate change. This study employs a spatially explicit, indicator-based approach with a coupled social–ecological framework, focusing on 67 species and 11 coastal regions. By integrating diverse sets of climatic, ecological, economic, societal, and governance indicators and information, we elucidate the factors that could hinder climate adaptation, including a limited understanding of fish early life stages, uncertainty in seafood production, unequal allocation and accessibility of resources, and inadequate consideration of inclusive governance and adaptive management. Our results show that species, which have managed to survive the stress of overfishing, demonstrate a remarkable ability to adapt to climate change. However, collapsing stocks such as large yellow croaker face a high risk due to the synergistic effects of inherent biological traits and external management interventions. We emphasize the imperative to build institutional, scientific, and social capacity to support fisheries adaptation. The scientific insights provided by this study can inform fisheries management decisions and promote the operationalization of climate-resilient fisheries in China and other regions.

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Social–ecological vulnerability and risk of China’s marine capture fisheries to climate change

Li,

Sun,

Yang

et al. 2023

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…In most recent years, China has taken concrete steps in some aspects to improve marine fishery law enforcement such as combating illegal fishing and reducing fuel subsidies (Goldstein, 2013). In March 2013, China set up the new Coast Guard with better equipment and vessels (Li and Amer, 2015).…”

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China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

Zhang

2017

Global Policy

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This paper first examines two most significant structural shifts in China's marine fishery sector in the past decades, namely, expanding outward and going after high market value species. It then explains how domestic policies and development strategies have shaped the trajectory of China's marine fishery sector, and analyzes the obstacles rooted in both domestic socio‐political settings and global governance that have impeded policy reform and effective enforcement in China to ensure marine sustainability and international cooperation. Lastly, the paper explores possible options for transnational advocacy actors that are concerned with the global impact of China's growing fisheries.

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“…Current fisheries in the Bohai Sea are mainly composed of crustacean and mollusc, also suggesting another possible structural shift in recent years. Although the government has implemented a series of policies to boost the collapsed fisheries, there are still no obvious signs of recovery (Goldstein 2013). Top predator growth and recruitment can be negatively affected by predation on eggs and larvae of predators, competition for zooplankton prey, and size-dependent growth .…”

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Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

Zhang

2015

Ambio

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Regime shift often results in large, abrupt, and persistent changes in the provision of ecosystem services and can therefore have significant impacts on human wellbeing. Understanding regime shifts has profound implications for ecosystem recovery and management. China's coastal ecosystems have experienced substantial deterioration within the past decades, at a scale and speed the world has never seen before. Yet, information about this coastal ecosystem change from a dynamics perspective is quite limited. In this review, I synthesize existing information on coastal ecosystem regime shifts in China and discuss their interactions and cascading effects. The accumulation of regime shifts in China's coastal ecosystems suggests that the desired system resilience has been profoundly eroded, increasing the potential of abrupt shifts to undesirable states at a larger scale, especially given multiple escalating pressures. Policy and management strategies need to incorporate resilience approaches in order to cope with future challenges and avoid major losses in China's coastal ecosystem services.

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Chinese fisheries enforcement: Environmental and strategic implications

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Social–ecological vulnerability and risk of China’s marine capture fisheries to climate change

Social–ecological vulnerability and risk of China’s marine capture fisheries to climate change

China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

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