Privatizing the fisheries observer industry: Neoliberal science and policy in the U.S. West Coast fisheries

Drakopulos, Lauren

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.004

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“…Further, emerging research cautions that Smart Earth initiatives reflect the assumptions of those who produce technology and data infrastructure (Drakopulos et al, 2022;Jasanoff, 2017). In their study of ocean data portals, Boucquey et al (2019) demonstrate how portal design has the power to make certain kinds of data legible and mappable (e.g.…”

Section: Smart Earth As Socio-technical Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Transparency also begs the question of who and what is made more visible, and thus, power asymmetries emerge around rights to visibility and invisibility (Taylor, 2017;Vera et al, 2019). Finally, data and technology may also become akin to a commodity as they are rendered 'ownable' through political relations and legal regimes (Drakopulos, 2022).…”

Section: Smart Earth As Socio-technical Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Google Cloud Platform is integral to GFW's operations, which utilize a suite of Google tools from mapping to machine learning models to data processing and storage. These tools enable GFW to process large volumes of AIS data: currently 50 million AIS data points from 250,000–300,000 unique vessels (both fishing and non-fishing) per day (GFW, n.d.-a). In effect, GFW absorbs the costs of an upstream paywall, transforms raw AIS data into new data products, visualizes them through their mapping interface and shares them under various terms and conditions.…”

Section: The Convergence Of Oceans Governance and Smart Earthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch

Drakopulos

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Nost

et al. 2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The number and variety of technologies used for environmental surveillance is expanding rapidly, making constant data collection and near ‘real time’ analyses possible. ‘Smart Earth’ describes networked infrastructures comprised of devices and equipment and signals to the human dimensions inherent to developing, deploying and putting technology and large datasets to use. In this paper, we situate Smart Earth in terms of technological products and human practices and consider the relationship between Smart Earth and global environmental governance. Specifically, we review emerging literature and present a case study of an organization founded by environmental non-profit, SkyTruth, tech industry behemoth, Google and marine conservation NGO, Oceana. Called ‘Global Fishing Watch’ (GFW), this organization builds geospatial datasets, hosts an online mapping platform where anyone with internet access can surveil various types of ocean-going vessels and shares data and map products with scientists and practitioners. Two critical points emerge through the case. First, we show that GFW expands its surveillance capacity by pursuing ‘data sharing’ partnerships with sovereign states, many in the Global South. Second, the maps and datasets produced by GFW link vessels to a ‘flag state’ while the firms, subsidiaries and financiers that may own and/or operate these vessels remain obscure – and hence so too does the political economy of oceans fisheries. GFW maps and datasets offer new approaches to tracking fishing and are advancing fisheries science. At the same time, they rely on and are only legible through hegemonic geopolitical and political–economic orders deeply implicated in industrial (over)fishing. The norms and domains of global environmental governance are expanding, but Smart Earth ‘solutions’ risk leaving the structural drivers of environmental change unaddressed.

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Section: Smart Earth As Socio-technical Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Smart Earth As Socio-technical Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Convergence Of Oceans Governance and Smart Earthmentioning

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Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…It has an international, national, and local scope and comprises statutory laws and social conventions. As an illustration of the degree of individual heterogeneity, Drakopulos (2022) and van der Zwet et al (2023) investigated the network resilience and involvement of the EU and US fisheries policies in third countries, respectively. Connolly et al (2022) also examined the governance capabilities of Brexit from the viewpoint of Scottish fisheries policy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They found that the absorbable areas related to fisheries management, operations, and research needed more political, social, and relationship input. Similarly, Drakopulos (2022) and Galappaththi et al (2022) investigated women's experiences influencing and shaping small‐scale fisheries governance. They did this by referring to the institutional contexts within which women participate, reflecting a broad spectrum of arrangements, including interactions with rules and regulations; participatory arrangements like co‐management; and informal norms, customary practices, and relational spaces.…”

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Toward marine sustainability: Unveiling the effect of the fishery industry on blue carbon sequestration

Alsaleh

Wang

Zhang

2023

Sustainable Development

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The fishing fleet of European Union (EU) nations gets billions in tax benefits each year, and the combustion of that fuel results in millions of tons of carbon emissions each year—and quantity of carbon dioxide equal to what Malta's entire fishing fleet emits each year. By considering the function of fishing output, fossil fuel usage, economic development, and population density (PD) from 1990 to 2022, this study examines the dynamic impact of the fishery sector on blue carbon in 27 European nations. The findings revealed a significant positive correlation and showed a significant positive association between fishing output as well as carbon sink decline at most quantiles by adopting an innovative methodology which is the method of moments quantile regression method which has a fixed factor. From the first to the ninth quantiles, fishery output greatly accelerates the decline of blue carbon storage, with a more substantial impact at the highest and a lesser influence at the lowest quantile. The findings also show that the EU14 developed countries experience a more meaningful, beneficial effect of fishing output on carbon sink deterioration than the EU13 developing nations. Economic development in EU14 created and EU13 developing nations were found to compress carbon sink degradation across all quantiles, supporting the growth theory for countries that produce fisheries. Fossil fuel usage was found to boost carbon sink degradation. In EU14 developed countries, the impact of PD was significantly negative from the first to the seventh quantiles. In contrast, in EU13 developing countries, this has a significant positive effect across all quantiles. With the help of diverse and green energy sources like the tide and wave energy, lawmakers can reduce the deterioration of blue carbon in the EU14 and EU13 nations.

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do worldwide governance drivers affect the blue sustainability practices? An empirical study of the fisheries sector

Alsaleh,

Yuan,

Longqi

et al. 2023

J Coast Conserv

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Privatizing the fisheries observer industry: Neoliberal science and policy in the U.S. West Coast fisheries

Cited by 7 publications

References 50 publications

Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch

Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch

Toward marine sustainability: Unveiling the effect of the fishery industry on blue carbon sequestration

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Do worldwide governance drivers affect the blue sustainability practices? An empirical study of the fisheries sector

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