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Multi-scale policy diffusion and translation in Pacific Island coastal fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Multilateral consensus forged among heads of states must be value-additive and relevant at the national level to facilitate on-ground implementation. Yet, despite general optimism and advances in policy understanding, ...
Anticipated impacts of recent political changes on fisheries management in South Africa
Type: Journal Article
South Africa's marine resources are essentially fully exploited and in some cases over exploited. The Government of National Unity has embarked on the ambitious Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) to: meet the ...
Overfishing in the Gulf of Thailand: policy challenges and bioeconomic analysis
Type: Journal Article
This paper estimates maximum sustainable yield and maximum economic yield from Schaefer and Fox surplus production bioeconomic models to find evidence of biological and economic overfishing, and their consequences in Gulf ...
Mangrove conservation and coastal management in Southeast Asia: what impact on fishery resources?
Type: Journal Article
This paper focuses on relationships between mangroves and coastal fish resources. A review of the literature highlights the lack of quantified relationships. We show that mangroves can be considered as a particular case ...
The political economy of marine fisheries development in Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
Despite the importance of the fisheries sector to national welfare in Indonesia, most fishers are small-scale producers who are among the poorest of the poor in Indonesian society. Foremost among the reasons for this poverty ...
Ecosystem-based management objectives for the North Sea: riding the forage fish rollercoaster
Type: Journal Article
The North Sea provides a useful model for considering forage fish (FF) within ecosystem-based management as it has a complex assemblage of FF species. This paper is designed to encourage further debate and dialogue between ...
Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems
Type: Journal Article
Food system is a powerful concept for understanding and responding to nutrition and sustainability challenges. Food systems integrate social, economic, environmental and health aspects of food production through to ...
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...
The status of routine fishery data collection in Southeast Asia, central America, the South Pacific, and West Africa, with special reference to small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) strategy for improving information on the status and trends of capture fisheries (FAO Strategy STF) was endorsed by Member States and the UN General Assembly in 2003. Its overall ...
Should states and international organizations adopt a human rights approach to fisheries policy?
Type: Journal Article
Non-governmental organizations (ngo) and fisherfolk organizations already use human rights principles and legislation to campaign for the social, economic and cultural rights of fishing people. Yet, despite the widespread ...