Failing the high seas: A global evaluation of regional fisheries management organizations

Cullis-Suzuki, Sarika; Pauly, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2010.03.002

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“…Atlantic cod, haddock) to species that are highly migratory and are distributed throughout the world, thereby making monitoring potentially more difficult and costly. This is exacerbated by the poor performance of regional fisheries management organizations responsible for overseeing the management of global tuna stocks (Cullis Suzuki & Pauly 2010, Gjerde et al 2013). Lastly, the countries which account for the highest proportion of global shared fish species catch and landed value tend to be large industrial fishing powers such as Japan and China.…”

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Trends in global shared fisheries

Teh¹,

Sumaila²

2015

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Shared fisheries involve fish that are caught in the marine waters of more than one country, or in the high seas. These fisheries are economically and biologically significant, but a global picture of their importance relative to total world fisheries catch and economic value is lacking. We address this gap by undertaking a global-scale analysis of temporal trends in shared fisheries species catch and landed value from 1950 to 2006. We find that (1) the number of countries participating in shared fisheries has doubled in the past 55 yr; (2) the most commonly targeted shared species have shifted from those that were mainly restricted to the North Atlantic to species that are highly migratory and are distributed throughout the world; (3) countries which account for the highest proportion of global shared fish species catch and landed value tend to be large industrial fishing powers, whereas those which are most reliant on shared fisheries at a national scale are mainly smaller developing countries. Overall, our findings indicate the increasing need to accommodate a greater number and diversity of interests, and also consider equity issues in the management and allocation of internationally shared fishery resources.

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Trends in global shared fisheries

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Sumaila²

2015

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“…The RFMOs host intergovernmental dialogue around issues relevant to the UNCLOS Straddling Fish Stocks Agreement and hence they are important structures for sustainable high seas fisheries management. However, the lack of enforcement remains a problem, which is indicated by the low performance of the RFMOs in high seas [112] and alternative management solutions should also be considered.…”

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Global connectivity and cross-scale interactions create uncertainty for Blue Growth of Arctic fisheries

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A B S T R A C TThe Arctic faces high expectations of Blue Growth due to future projections of easier access and increased biological productivity. These expectations are, however, often based on global and regional climate change projections and largely ignore the complexity of social-ecological interactions taking place across different temporal and spatial scales. This paper illustrates how such cross-scale interactions at, and across, different dimensions (e.g., ecological, socioeconomic and governance) can affect the development of Arctic fisheries; and potentially create uncertainties for future Blue Growth projections. Two Arctic marine systems, The Barents Sea and the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO), are used as focus areas. The former hosts productive fisheries and is mostly covered by the EEZs of Norway and Russia, while the latter is still mainly covered by sea-ice and is a high seas area with no multilevel governance system in place. The examples show that, both systems are affected by a number of processes, beyond the environmental change, spanning a wide range of dimensions, as well as spatial and temporal scales. To address the complexity of the Arctic marine systems calls for an increase in holistic scientific understanding together with adaptive management practices. This is particularly important in the CAO, where no robust regional management structures are in place. Recognizing how cross-scale dynamics can cause uncertainties to the current fisheries projections and implementing well-functioning adaptive management structures across different Arctic sub-systems can play a key role in whether the Blue Growth potential in Arctic fisheries is realized or lost.

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“…In line with the former approach, White and Costello (2014, 1) argue that transboundary fisheries, on the high seas in particular, "pose perhaps the greatest global challenge to sustainable fisheries management". International law, voluntary guidelines and multi-lateral agreements have been developed over the past decades to manage transboundary fisheries, but with notably poor results (Cullis-Suzuki and Pauly 2010;Russell and Vanderzwaag 2010). In the second perspective, the concept of transboundary fishing is problematized as a state-biased construct that 'criminalizes' an age-old phenomenon of mobile resource exploitation (Gupta and Sharma 2008).…”

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Limits to the Governability of Transboundary Fisheries: Implications for Small-Scale Fishers in Northern Sri Lanka and Beyond

Scholtens

2015

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Transboundary fisheries are a worldwide phenomenon that has considerable impact on small-scale fisheries. This chapter explores governability problems of transboundary fisheries in connection with small-scale fishers' marginality. Insights are derived by studying the practice of transboundary fishing in the Palk Bay, South Asia, where a sizable Indian trawler fleet impedes Sri Lankan small-scale fishers from carrying out their occupation. By analyzing the features of the fisheries systems and the fragmented governance practices, this chapter raises six issues that challenge the overall system's governability: 1) mismatch between the scale of governance and the scale of the problem; 2) high level of institutional fragmentation with limited cross-linkages; 3) actors' strategic framing of the nature, causes and solution to the problem; 4) power imbalances between Sri Lankan and Indian fishers; 5) deep politicization that has linked fisheries issues to higher level ethnic and geopolitical conflicts; and 6) path dependency of the trawl sector. I conclude that while co-governance is in theory crucial for transboundary governance to be more responsive to the situation at hand, governability analysis explains why constructive collaborative practices are difficult, if not impossible, to create in practice in this case 2 .

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Failing the high seas: A global evaluation of regional fisheries management organizations

Cited by 257 publications

References 21 publications

Trends in global shared fisheries

Trends in global shared fisheries

Global connectivity and cross-scale interactions create uncertainty for Blue Growth of Arctic fisheries

Limits to the Governability of Transboundary Fisheries: Implications for Small-Scale Fishers in Northern Sri Lanka and Beyond

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