Journal•ISSN: 0308-597X
Marine Policy
Elsevier BV
About: Marine Policy is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Fisheries management & Fishing. It has an ISSN identifier of 0308-597X. Over the lifetime, 5978 publications have been published receiving 155407 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an approach to poverty reduction in low-income countries known as the sustainable livelihoods approach is applied to understand the strategies of artisanal fisherfolk confronted by fluctuating fisheries resources.
1,219 citations
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TL;DR: Invasive alien marine species threaten biodiversity, marine industries (including fishing and tourism) and human health, and unlike oil spills only get worse with time as mentioned in this paper. But effective solutions are a long way off; meanwhile the majority of vectors is being ignored.
965 citations
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TL;DR: Marine spatial planning (MSP) has become a crucial step in making ecosystem-based, sea use management a reality as discussed by the authors, and it can be defined and what its core objectives are.
906 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of government, primarily national government, in fisheries co-management and investigate the critical role of decentralization in a strategy of comanagement using a number of international cases.
673 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the problems involved in a cooperative management approach, as well as the comparative advantageousness of such an approach, and conclude that the circumstances that might favor the success of co-management are noted.
652 citations