Showing papers in "Marine Policy in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review existing literature to highlight ten social injustices that might be produced by blue growth: dispossession, displacement and ocean grabbing; environmental justice concerns from pollution and waste; 3) environmental degradation and reduction of ecosystem services; 4) livelihood impacts for small-scale fishers; 5) lost access to marine resources needed for food security and well-being; 6) inequitable distribution of economic benefits; social and cultural impacts; 8) marginalization of women; 9) human and Indigenous rights abuses; and, 10) exclusion from governance.

TL;DR: In this paper, Padiyar, Suresh Rajendran, A B C Mohan, Ravi Babu, Michael Joseph Akester, Ei Ei Phyo, Khin Maung Soe, Ajibola Olaniyi, Sunil N Siriwardena, Michael Phillips, Shakuntala H Thilsted

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight seven major challenges that need to be properly addressed so that MSP can truly contribute to a sustainable use of the world's oceans, including shortcomings in political and institutional frameworks, stakeholder engagement, encompassing human and social dimensions in MSP, balancing economic development and marine ecosystem conservation, and adapting to global environmental change.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the gaps that occur in the shipping trade between China and different regions during the period February-October 2020 and provided useful information for operation management of shipping industry.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the influential mechanisms of environmental regulation and technological innovation on GTFP of marine economy to provide a theoretical basis for local government and enterprises to make decisions under environmental regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, a study aimed at bridging the gap in the existing situation and challenges of COVID-19 by linking its impact on aquatic food sector and small-scale fisheries with dependent population.

TL;DR: In this article, the current international legal framework does not provide for the creation of holistic and cross-sectoral area-based management tools (ABMTs) in ABNJ, and the forthcoming negotiations will consider how to fill this gap.

TL;DR: Understanding of techniques and concepts that can be used by managers without genetic or genomic expertise when consulting with specialists to perform joint evaluations of the utility of the approaches are provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the key developments of ocean management leading up to and over the past decade, especially marine or maritime spatial planning and ecosystem-based management, with an emphasis on the former.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a shift in focus to community wellbeing is necessary to realize the potential benefits of marine aquaculture expansion, and suggest that marine aquaulture illustrates the need to reorient Blue Economy to Blue Communities, a concept that draws on the multidimensional concept of wellbeing to foreground social, cultural, and environmental factors alongside economic growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a statistical data and evaluation of traffic on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) during 2016-2019 and discussed policy implications for future NSR shipping, showing that Russian domestic shipping dominates shipping activities on the NSR in terms of number of shipping companies, vessels and voyages.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically sort out the real-life logic of financial influence on marine productivity improvement and empirically test it using panel data from 11 coastal regions in China from 2006 to 2016.

TL;DR: The European Union has a legally-binding framework for the establishment of maritime spatial plans in the sea areas covered by the exclusive economic zones of its Member States by 2021, and the European Commission is supporting EU Member States in their planning efforts with concrete tools and financing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the use of the Internet can help improve fish farms' productivity using survey data from two regions in Ghana and the econometric model approach to explore the quantitative impacts of Internet use on fish farm productivity.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the impact of political promotion incentive and fiscal incentive on marine environmental pollution and identified the transmission mechanism of local officials' tenure to marine environmental degradation.

TL;DR: In this article, two online based surveys were performed in Mymensingh, Bangladesh using structured questionnaires with 40 farmers to assess the economic feasibility of aquaculture farming, and 120 middlemen of the supply chain to unpack market instability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for identifying the people-policy gap in aquaculture is proposed, and benefit sharing is introduced as a necessary and complementary concept to fill this gap.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied the sustainable livelihoods framework to analyse the characteristics and immediate and longer-term outcomes of 20 SSF livelihood-focused intervention programs implemented in coastal communities across the Indonesian Archipelago over the last two decades.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a three-party evolutionary game model, consisting of the government supervisory agency, the blue carbon trading platform, and the news media, to analyse the evolutionary equilibrium conditions and each party's evolutionarily stable strategy.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the causal relationship between environmental regulation and innovation in underdeveloped coastal cities, using the synthetic control method, and verified the Porter hypothesis to apply in the underdeveloped areas of developing countries.

TL;DR: The authors conducted interviews with fisheries managers and practitioners working in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu between 2018 and 2019, and found gender inclusive approaches were broadly applied in three ways: (a) through community-based projects and programs; (b) national level research and policy; and (c) internal organizational operations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the influence of an extended producer responsibility (EPR) policy for packaging to reduce shoreline pollution in British Columbia, Canada using available citizen science data to demonstrate that there has been no reduction in pollution levels after the introduction of the policy.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors presented the main farming species and their distribution, the trend of domestic production as a whole and production of each main producing area, processing, import and export, farm-gate price, per capital consumption as well as the socioeconomic and environmental performances of the fishery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected the drivers and pressures and their impact on the whole coastal ecosystem as well as existing management responses by interviewing 26 stakeholders representing community organizations, non-government organizations, and municipal level government units from two municipalities (Busuanga and Coron) in the island.

TL;DR: Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) represents a major sea-based source of marine debris globally, with far-reaching socioeconomic and environmental impacts as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a mixed-method including online questionnaire surveys, face-to-face and telephonic interviews and focus group discussions during June-November 2020.

TL;DR: In this article, the introduction of a new spatial planning framework was in response to an increasing interest in new developments and a growing demand for governmental coordination of these developments, especially with regard to renewable energy and demand for sand to strengthen the coast.

TL;DR: Seaweed aquaculture is capable of removing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus from coastal ecosystems, yet seaweed has gained little traction for its potential role in targeted nutrient assimilation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and analyzed the literature, produced in the last ten years, regarding two international, private and voluntary ecolabels in the fish industry: FOS and MSC.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether WCM policies affect the economic and financial profitability of Spanish companies in the fish canning industry and identified a convex relationship between investment in inventory and economic profitability.