Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify ecological principles for MSP based on a synthesis of previously suggested and/or operationalized principles, along with recommendations generated by a group of twenty ecologists and marine scientists with diverse backgrounds and perspectives on MSP.

TL;DR: The authors synthesize the pathways through which climate variability and change impact fisherfolk livelihoods at the household and community level, identifying current and potential adaptation strategies and explore the wider implications for local livelihoods, fisheries management and climate policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature and analysis of the understanding of the subject of ecosystem based management is presented, and it has been concluded that to understand marine ecosystem-based management one must consider ecosystems as complex adaptive systems which can show changes at higher levels from actions and processes occurring at lower levels.

TL;DR: It is shown that ecosystem-based management is feasible from a range of starting points and that for any given starting point there are numerous productive paths forward.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the world's 18 regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) based on a two-tiered approach, concentrating first on their performance on paper and secondly, in practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the cumulative human impacts in the marine environment and found that commercial fishing, land-based activities and marine transportation accounted for 57.0%, 19.1%, and 17.7% of total cumulative impacts, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, a range of policies are explored to find those that produce "Pretty Good Yield" defined as sustainable yield at least 80% of the maximum sustainable yield, and the most important biological parameter determining this range is the intensity of recruitment compensation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined scuba divers' willingness to pay for access to quality recreational sites in the Bonaire National Marine Park, in the Netherlands Antilles and found that the US$10 annual diver user fee in effect at the time of the study could be increased substantially without a significant adverse effect on island tourism.

TL;DR: The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate ocean mineral development in ways that lessen environmental harms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated commercial inshore fishers' perceptions of participation in the decision-making process and attitudes towards a new management regime, the Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs), which aims to increase participation in and decentralization of Inshore fisheries management.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the middlemen-fishermen link in coastal communities along the coast of southern Kenya and Zanzibar, and explores effects of reciprocal agreements and credit arrangements on soci...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how knowledge of both the ocean, coastal and national economies can help governments address the future impacts and demands posed by nature and human populations on our coasts and oceans.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the failure of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) from a biological, economical, legal and political perspective, concluding that the CFP has neither lived up to its aim of enhancing the sustainability of fish stocks nor that of improving the economic competitiveness of the fishing industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the marine fish and invertebrate consumption in three of the world's major seafood markets (the EU, Japan and the USA) using a series of global maps indicating the likely origin of the seafood consumed by each market.

TL;DR: In this article, a risk and vulnerability assessment and management decision-making framework for marine capture fisheries to adapt to climate change is presented. And a set of fishery policy options to adapt climate change are provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential for whale watching is estimated for maritime countries that do not currently engage in this industry, based on ecological and socio-economic criteria, and the results suggest that whale watching could generate an additional 413 million USD in yearly revenue, supporting 5,700 jobs.

TL;DR: In this article, travel cost methods were used to estimate the value of recreational fishing in the Capricorn Coast in Central Queensland using data from on-site surveys conducted at boat ramps.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ecosystem services approach to valuing marine biodiversity is recognised as a framework by which economic, ecological and social values may be incorporated into the decision-making process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new comprehensive classification of marine protected areas benefits that will provide scientists and managers with an inclusive framework to accurately identify and account for all possible benefits derived from MPAs.

TL;DR: Although a blue Arctic Ocean is predicted in the summertime to occur from the middle of this century, current rates of warming indicate an earlier realization as mentioned in this paper, and routes along the coast of Siberia will be navigable much earlier.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of ecosystem services in relation to regime shifts and resilience of the Baltic Sea sub-basins, and their driving forces, points to a number of challenges, including the need to co-evolve between science, policy and practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of a major community-based marine protected area programme (CB-MPA) in an Indonesian island archipelago is the point of departure for this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the Chilean shellfish co-management system from an organizational network perspective starting with one detailed case study, representatives of 38 small-scale fisher associations from two administrative regions were interviewed to investigate: (1) networks of actors in each comanagement case, (2) the functions of these actors in comanagement, and (3) fisher perceptions about Chile's comanagement arrangement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the socioeconomic conditions in nine communities of the Kenyan coast to test the hypotheses that socioeconomic characteristics and knowledge about the sea differ for fishers compared to non-fishers, and found that fishers living adjacent to parks had lower occupational diversity, higher fortnightly expenditures, greater knowledge of the effects of land-based pollutants and market demands.

TL;DR: The value of applying a regional level, Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) framework, which is a step-wise, hierarchical, risk-based approach, was tested on the West Coast Bioregion of Western Australia as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the potential impact that recent changes in the management of the New England fishery for Atlantic herring ( Clupea harengus ) may have on fishery-related fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of formal fisheries policies in Bahde Kino, one of the most important fishing villages in terms of benthic resources in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify socioeconomic indicators and drivers to improve the understanding of the dynamics between socioeconomic conditions and current exploitation levels of finfish and invertebrates of coastal communities in 17 Pacific Island countries and territories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the views of fishermen towards management measures with an emphasis on fishing closures (marine protected areas, MPAs), and found that MPAs have been inefficient in conservation of cod stock.

TL;DR: The authors examined the implications of climate change for fishery governance using seven international fishery case studies in low, mid and high latitudes, including eastern Australia, the western Pacific Ocean, Alaska, west coast United States, Hawaii, western coast Canada and France, revealing that adaptation will involve more flexible fishery management regimes, schemes for capacity adjustment, catch limitation and alternative fishing livelihoods for fishers.