Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 2008"

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.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the various types and stages of stakeholder participation in a marine spatial planning process, and illustrate how to conduct a stakeholder analysis that allows the involvement of stakeholders in an adequate way that is sustainable over time.

TL;DR: The abrupt decline in the sea's capacity to provide crucial ecosystem services requires a new ecosystem-based approach for maintaining and recovering biodiversity and integrity as mentioned in this paper, where marine spatial planners and managers must understand the heterogeneity of biological communities and their key components (e.g., apex predators and structure-forming species).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the extent and consequences of renaming and mislabeling seafood, the state of current legislation, and the importance of future policies, with particular attention to the US, where 80% of the seafood is imported and more than one-third of all fish are mislabeled.

TL;DR: The importance of setting specific objectives, including as a context for the full range of relevant spatial data, and determining priorities is emphasised, and it is suggested that stakeholder engagement, including the way it is undertaken, is critical to different stages of the process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a participatory method was used to map the presence of fishing communities at sea, and the lessons learned concerning the spatial representation of communities informed not only fisheries, but other sectors struggling to incorporate similarly the human dimensions of the marine environment in assessment and planning.

TL;DR: Development of specifically designed equipment to discard sharks could improve shark post release survival prospects, reduce gear loss and improve crew safety, and information on fisher knowledge and new strategies for shark avoidance may benefit sharks and fishers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the factors affecting shipping companies' port choice based on a survey to a sample of shipping companies and identify five port choice categories, i.e. advancement/convenience of port, physical/operational ability of port; operational condition of shipping lines; marketability; and port charge.

TL;DR: Fisheries are complex human-in-nature systems that exhibit the capacity to self-organize or adapt, even without outside influence, which should lead to a radically different approach to management of fisheries systems that places much emphasis on enablingSelf-organization, learning and adaptation.

TL;DR: The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) has successfully established a multiple-use spatial management approach that allows both high levels of environmental protection and a wide range of human activities as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rather than taking law as given, the formation of law and the power dynamics influencing such processes are critical aspects that need to be acknowledged and understood in fisheries compliance theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the rights and duties towards exploitation and protection of the marine environment under the jurisdiction of coastal states as reflected in two important global conventions, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention on Biological Diversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the principal conclusions from papers presented in this special issue on marine spatial planning are summarized, and the authors identify potential economic, ecological, and administrative benefits (and costs) that might be realized from the implementation of MSP.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the main hurdles, summarizes existing high seas spatial protections, present an example of a high seas marine protected area that resulted through MSP, identifies three institutional priorities, and suggests three immediate steps.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of European Member States’ national legislation revealed considerable variation in ownership and access to coastal waters/fisheries, and in the legal distinction between sport fishing and other recreational uses of marine fisheries and their commercial (catching for sale and profit) counterparts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors claim that institutional innovation is required for ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management, and that such innovation can best be achieved by engaging in a delicate process of societal decision making.

TL;DR: A set of eight principles is contained in the European Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, and the six core principles form two groups, one concerned with strategic goals and one that has a local focus.

TL;DR: In this article, a method is presented to define principal areas for fisheries at high spatial resolution applicable to be implemented into marine spatial planning procedures, where vessel monitoring system (VMS) data from 2005 to 2006 are acquired to determine vessel-based fishing effort.

TL;DR: In this article, an account of the relationship between marine protected areas, dive tourism and small-scale fisheries in the Calamianes Islands, Philippines is presented, arguing that although the assumed harmonious relationship between conservation and dive tourism may work in theory, in practice different understandings of MPAs can create conflict.

TL;DR: A conceptual model is proposed that identifies potential sources of direct and indirect risks to fishing health and safety in order to throw light on potential pathways from regulation to fishing safety.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that participation and devolution do not bear a linear relationship; greater devolution does not necessarily result in greater participation, a claim that has contributed to the processes of devolution being overvalued.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a regional study that examined various approaches to managing excess fishing capacity in small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Philippines and Thailand.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the evolution of a local regulatory regime for clams in an aboriginal community in British Columbia, Canada, considering the roles of regulatory, scientific, political, and moral legitimacy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the process of transformation of on-foot shellfish gathering in Galicia, an activity that has traditionally been developed mainly by women in a regime similar to an open access regime.

TL;DR: The North Sea Regional Advisory Council (NSRAC) as discussed by the authors is the main forum through which fisheries interests are involved in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) on the North Sea.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extent to which different individual vessel quotas (IVQ) systems have facilitated resource rent generation and capacity adjustment in five European countries (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the UK) is examined.

TL;DR: The Marine Planning Framework for South Australia (MPF) as discussed by the authors is a new large-scale, ecosystem-based zoning policy for management of development and use in the marine environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors categorize the ecosystem approach into four distinguishable types: bycatch mitigation, multi-species management, protection of vulnerable ecosystems, and integrated approach, and the lack of identification and understanding of specific management goals is hampering the application of ecosystem approach.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on regulatory enforcement in fisheries can be found in this paper, where the main contributions from the general economic literature of law enforcement are presented, along with extensions that are considered relevant to the study of fisheries law enforcement.

TL;DR: In the face of growing calls for no-take marine protected areas (NTMPAs), the views of fishing industry representatives in south-west (SW) England on related issues are analysed in this paper.