Reforming European Union Participation in Fisheries Management and Conservation on the High Seas

Antonova, Anna S.

doi:10.1163/22116001-02901007

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“…The profound transformational in environmental governance in terms of the legal management of the oceans through UNCLOS III played a significant role in both politics pertaining to British coastal communities and in their perceptions of the EEC/EU. The EEC's exclusive supranational competence in fisheries emerged in response to the UNCLOS III paradigm shift and drew its justification from it (Antonova 2015(Antonova , 2016. This resulted in an early and strong ideational association between the EU and the newly established legal framework for oceanic governance.…”

Section: Changing Marine Governance the Normative Clout Of The Eu And...mentioning

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Sustaining transformations: changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast

Antonova

2022

Maritime Studies

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Transformations to sustainability are frequently framed as key to blue growth, but they often engender complex consequences for communities. This article illustrates the role of environmental meaning in these processes through the lens of the Brexit vote on the Yorkshire East Coast. Based on discursive institutionalist analysis of narrative materials from semi-formal interviews conducted in 2017 alongside textual documentation from media, policy, and regional archives, I trace connections between transforming marine governance regimes, environmental meaning, and the British relationship with the EU from the Cod Wars to today. The transformation towards ecosystem-based management in British maritime governance post UNCLOS III left local communities feeling ‘left behind’ not only economically but also in terms of marginalised local meanings of place, labour, and environment. The Brexit vote, in this context, shows the multivalence of transformational processes and the importance of considering environmental meaning as part of their just execution.

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Section: Changing Marine Governance the Normative Clout Of The Eu And...mentioning

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Sustaining transformations: changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast

Antonova

2022

Maritime Studies

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“…The EU's role as a global actor has a longer history, however. Its predecessor, the EEC, declared a strong legal competence in fisheries conservation with its signature to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1998, and took an active part in the negotiations of the 1995 Fish Stocks Agreement [1]. The EU's further consolidation and growth as an international actor since then has been reflected in the maritime realm.…”

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“…In 2014, Senegal became the first country to negotiate and sign a bilateral fishing agreement with the EU under the agreements' latest revised form as SFPAs after the 2012 reform of the CFP (Protocol, 2014, 2; [27]). The current protocol for the agreement, valid until 2024, outlines fishing opportunities for highly migratory species (tuna) for 28 freezer seiners and eight pole-and-line vessels and for deep-sea demersal species for two trawlers ( [19], 1(1)), against a compensation estimated at nearly 14 million EUR ( [19], 3 (1)). This latest form of the agreement demonstrates higher commitments to network governance on the part of the EU.…”

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“…Through both rhetoric and policy instruments, it has sought to frame itself as a responsible and progressive actor in fisheries governance [2,57]. To do so, it has built on its influence as the world's largest seafood market and on its exclusive competences for marine resources conservation, which enable and mandate it to negotiate on behalf of member states [1]. As a result, its external fisheries policies have consistently been promoted by the European Commission and the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) as being part and parcel of a "new Europe" working at the service of normative global principles [2,43].…”

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Sustainable Networks: Modes of governance in the EU’s external fisheries policy relations under the IUU Regulation in Thailand and the SFPA with Senegal

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Antonova

2021

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The EU envisions itself as a global leader in sustainable fisheries governance. This paper explores how two key policies seek to implement these aspirations internationallythe Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) regulation and the Sustainable Fishing Partnership Agreements (SFPAs). We draw on case studies in Thailand and Senegal to examine the specific mechanisms through which the EU influences fisheries governance beyond its territory, respectively through the IUU regulation and SFPAs. Drawing on normative power literature, we argue that the EU utilises network and market modes of governance to translate normative environmental values into third country regulations as part of dialogue and negotiation processes. In particular, we expand on the functioning of the network mode of governance by looking at how the EU has used socialisation and partnership approaches to promote certain values during its dialogues with both countries. In Thailand, the EU helped promote fisheries reform through its IUU yellow card mechanism, but its influence has at times been criticised as too directive. Meanwhile, the latest iteration of the EU's bilateral fishing relations with Senegal under the new SFPA scheme shows promising improvement compared to previous versions, but remains complicated by the two countries' relative power imbalance. Overall, our paper seeks to enrich the engagement of fisheries governance literature with questions of EU relations with third countries. Our two case studies demonstrate how exploring the functioning of normative aspects is significant particularly because the advancement of sustainability in global fisheries depends on concrete, historically complex, and multilaterally constructed power relations.

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“…11 Currently, the EU is a member of fourteen RFMOs. Regarding the EU's participation in the framework of these organizations, see, e.g., Antonova (2015), pp. 125-143, Franckx and Van den Bossche (2010), pp.…”

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Some Recent Questions Regarding the European Union’s Public Access Fisheries Agreements

Oanta

2017

The Future of the Law of the Sea

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Reforming European Union Participation in Fisheries Management and Conservation on the High Seas

Cited by 4 publications

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Sustaining transformations: changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast

Sustaining transformations: changing marine governance, environmental meaning, and ‘left behind’ Brexit narratives on the Yorkshire East Coast

Sustainable Networks: Modes of governance in the EU’s external fisheries policy relations under the IUU Regulation in Thailand and the SFPA with Senegal

Some Recent Questions Regarding the European Union’s Public Access Fisheries Agreements

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