Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 1998"

TL;DR: In this article, the institutional problems associated with co-management have been analyzed from the perspective of rational choice, and the authors offer another perspective by analyzing these problems from the standpoint of how institutions are embedded in human community.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art research at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABCE).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the critical issues which Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries must address in defining their approach to fisheries governance and suggest practical measures which should be taken in order to deal with these issues.

TL;DR: The paradox of fairness: the impact of escalating complexity on fishery management in the face of rising complexity is examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess to what extent the prerequisites for being competitive in shipping exceed the simple notion of low manning costs; reviewing the last developments in fleet registration, with a special focus on the Greek flag, they highlight further the different context in which business and policy decisions have to be taken nowadays by traditional maritime nations.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study of conch fishermen and buyers' attitudes and compliance with government regulations was conducted in New England, focusing on responses to size and gear limitations and enforcement with implications for the use of comanagement in U.S. coastal fisheries under state jurisdiction.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the efforts of different management bodies to secure autonomy from industry interests, as well as the quest of regional authorities to attain control of the quota distribution.

TL;DR: In the early 1990s, island States of the South Pacific, confronted with the need to develop appropriate arrangements to enable them to manage highly migratory fish stocks in the western central Pacific ocean, developed the Palau Arrangement for the Management of the Western Pacific Purse Seine Fishery as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Regional Seas Programme of UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) as mentioned in this paper is a trans-sectoral approach to marine and coastal areas and to environmental problems, considering not only the consequences, but also the causes of environmental degradation.

TL;DR: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ILOHL) delivered its first judgment in the M/V Saiga case as discussed by the authors, which was concerned with the interpretation and application of Article 292 of the Convention, which embodies a novel procedure for effecting the prompt release of detained vessels.

TL;DR: The problem of reliable biodiversity assessments and the present day limited use of the information for policy-making is discussed and examples of the applications of innovative information technological tools in the field of biodiversity informatics are given.

TL;DR: In this article, two resource allocation rules that were consecutively implemented in the Norwegian cod fishery in order to distribute the allowable catch between coastal vessels and trawlers are compared with one another and with existing theoretic bargaining solutions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a possible approach to these aspects of fisheries management involving establishment of property rights, and suggest that these circumstances are due to failure to understand the nature of the fishery and apply economic principles to its management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use annual and monthly time series analysis of CPUE data for a lobster fishery to show that time trends in CPUE are dependent upon the time interval selected Changes in the spatial distribution of effort will almost certainly have similar consequences.

TL;DR: The Norwegian minke whale hunt was resumed in 1993, despite considerable international opposition as discussed by the authors, and it was shown that the hunts were profitable for the participating vessels, and adverse international effects due to the resumed hunt are discussed, as is the future of commercial whale hunting in Norway.

TL;DR: The fishermen's unemployment insurance system in Canada must be among the most controversial aspects of this most controversial of industries as discussed by the authors, which is why in the face of determined opposition to the system, did attempts to reform the fishermen's employment scheme repeatedly fail.

TL;DR: In this article, a basic economic and management framework for dealing with sustainable oceans development, examines some of the issues associated with ocean industries in Canada, and points out some of Canada's present management of ocean industries (a method that utilizes an individual-industry focus).

TL;DR: Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world and has a large number of seafloor resources as discussed by the authors, such as: a network of tide gauges and current meter stations; two satellite ground stations; tropical radar wind profiling stations; network of marine pollution stations; a number of ocean going, coastal and fisheries research vessels; and six SEAWATCH monitoring buoys.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the restrictive effects of intellectual property laws relating to copyright, patents and confidential information on the dissemination of marine scientific research data, samples and results, and argue that the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention regime for MSR fails to address these restrictions.

TL;DR: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) as discussed by the authors has been a major source of international financial assistance for achieving global environmental benefits, however, its investment in International Waters remains comparatively small and since the GEF is designed to achieve global environmental benefit through provision of grant and concessionary funding for the agreed incremental costs of projects its primary objective is not capacity building.

TL;DR: The Cornish albacore fleet may cease to exist as mentioned in this paper due to new legislation which evolved from inappropriate, extra-regional sources and conflict between the fishing fleets from different European countries due to its ‘High Seas’ location.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the North and West African coastal and marine areas discussed in this paper consist of the countries from Morocco to Libya for North Africa, and from Moroccan to South Africa (up to the Cape of Good Hope) in West Africa.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the views expressed by Nollkaemper in a paper published in Marine Policy in November 1993 concerning Agenda 21 and the prevention of sea-based marine pollution, at the same time as providing an up-to-date account of what has subsequently transpired under the auspicies of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to implement the outcome of the Rio Earth Summit held in June 1992.

TL;DR: In this article, the need for inter-national cooperative actions to support the development of the ocean science and observation capabilities to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which entered into force in November 1994, and the results of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 1992 is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that a serious security situation is emerging in East Asia with high economic growth both increasing the demand for marine resources and facilitating higher expenditure on naval arms.

TL;DR: The Herring Industry Board attempted to modernise the British herring fleet throughout the postwar period as discussed by the authors and employed three main economic and technical instruments: research and development, grants and loans to support investment, and minimum prices and fishing subsidies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the past and present interaction between the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Com- mission, donor organisations and developing countries in the development of regional programmes for creating and supporting marine science capabilities is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression analyses were employed to determine which of these state factors influence the level of development of coastal management programs, and the state factors associated with highly developed management programs were identified as pro-environmental, activist citizenry and history of adopting environmental policies.