Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 1997"

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.

TL;DR: In this article, a review and evaluation of 43 Community-Based Coastal Resource Management (CBCRM) programs and projects were implemented throughout the Philippines between 1984 and 1994, which provide a wealth of experience and "lessons learned" to guide the design and implementation of CBCRM policy and local-level initiatives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development of the UK quota management system and the approaches adopted by different producers' organizations to the internal management of their quota allocations, including the possible evolution, largely through industry-led innovation, of some sort of individual transferable quota (ITQ) system for the UK.

TL;DR: In 1980, the Indonesian government imposed a ban on trawling along the Malacca Straits and off the north coast of Java, the nation's two most important fishing grounds as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The Norwegian fishing industry is in the lucky situation that the quotas increase and Russian catches are delivered in Northern Norway and the aquaculture industry has had a tremendous growth over the last five years as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of fishermen's organisations in the fisheries management decision-making process based on Danish experiences and develop a typology of fishermen's organizations in order to emphasize the differences in motivation and capacity of organizations and evaluate their strategies and effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the main species of concern at present are albatross and it is suggested that measures can be developed which achieve a reduction in bird loss and which are practical and economic for the fishing industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the transition from command-and-control management to tradeable harvesting rights is discussed and the transition phase must deal with the expectations that attach to the status quo structure of rights in the fishery.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of fishing communities is considered with particular reference to Europe and the implications for developing country fishermen of globalisation of European fishing effort, including the introduction of individual transferable quotas (ITQs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the circumstances which led to Shell UK's about-turn and elaborate the possible consequences of this in terms of the policy approaches and specific procedures previously adopted to satisfy the requirements of international law.

TL;DR: Following the election of members of the new International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in August 1996, this article outlines the provision made for the settlement of disputes under the UN Convention on the Law and related instruments against the background of the earlier regime of dispute settlement under international law as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the particular instance of Spain, where the fishing sector is marked by diversity, and where fishing co-management stands as an alternative for the territories that aredependent on this industry.

TL;DR: The role of Sea Fisheries Committees is changing, as they face up to the challenge of marine environmental management as discussed by the authors and their recent designation as possible lead agencies in the management of Special Areas of Conservation, working alongside conservation organisations, will provide a stern test of their resilience and adaptability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the recent development of this question and its analysis from an economic perspective, and the importance of management procedures for the regulation of these fisheries is underlined.

TL;DR: In this paper, a linear programming approach was developed to assess short-run profitability, optimum access fees and net economic benefits for US tropical tuna purse seiners operating under the South Pacific Tuna Treaty.

TL;DR: In this article, a plea is made for a system of fishery resources law which, of local, national and international effect, would restrain the economic drives and social impulses that so far have frustrated the efforts of Fishery administrators, denied industrial stability, and threatened resource survival.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine a conflict over the proposed development of a dry cargo and container terminal at Sears Island, in upper Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA.

TL;DR: In this article, the employment implications of the decline in the UK's merchant fleet, particularly over the past decade, were examined and the impact of the transfer of UK owned tonnage to other flag registers was examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the Palau arrangement needs to be reviewed in light of recent developments in international law, in particular the conclusion of the UN Agreement on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stockings.

TL;DR: The Baltic Sea Joint Comprehensive Environmental Action Programme (JCP) as mentioned in this paper is an international environmental clean-up programme aimed at restoring the Baltic Sea to a sound ecological balance, which removes the major sources of pollution, i.e. the 132 mostly municipal and industrial hot spots that are predominantly in the Eastern countries in transition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that a practical alternative to the direct control of tuna catches, while other methods are being researched, is area closures, which is already in place in some island countries and requires only limited financial resources to implement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the status of the legal protection of the Persian Gulf's marine environment is discussed, and the authors elaborate the problems and consider possible solutions, concluding that the problem is not the lack of necessary legal rules, but failure to comply with them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that effective research at the interface between geostrategy and naval port systems can be promoted by reference to five interrelated frameworks: strategic, technological, economic, urban and social.

TL;DR: The Indian Ocean has been, and remains, of vital strategic importance as an arena of superpower rivalry and intervention, the highway for the carriage of Middle East oil, and the theatre of local conflicts as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Wilson, Acheson, and Kleban as mentioned in this paper published an article on "Chaos, complexity and community management of fisheries" in 1994, which has given rise to a lively discourse in the journal and the editor is pleased to provide space for this further contribution.

TL;DR: A new generation of multi-beam sonar systems now offers unprecedented detail and accuracy in mapping the ocean floor as discussed by the authors, and this technology provides an important new tool for many ocean uses, including the delimitation and defence of rights to those uses.

TL;DR: The role of sea power, particularly in the era of superpower rivalry, is considered Geostrategic reorientation following the end of the Cold War is examined, and it is concluded that the dominant axis of tension is now North-South rather than East-West as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the application of decision-analytic methods for the purpose of resolving conflicts between interest groups in the management of fisheries in the Shetland Islands, and discuss how the introduction of new world views make management more complex.