Bigeye tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean were perceived as overfished for nearly 20 years, in large part due to incidental catch in the much larger skipjack tuna fishery. Efforts to halt the overfishing of bigeye stalled due to disagreements over the distribution of costs and...

Purpose - This study investigates whether higher catch rates near a marine protected area (MPA), and/or in other fishing areas within a choice set, attract more fishers. A survey conducted in the fishing grounds near an MPA located in south east of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean shows...

Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whales (SRKW) have declined by more than 25 percent, and this population appears on a...

"Focusing on the experiences of Thailand and Australia, this book examines the impact of trade-restrictive measures as related to the EU's regulations to prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. It is widely accepted that IUU fishing is harmful, and should be stopped, but there...

Bigeye tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean were perceived as overfished for nearly 20 years, in large part due to incidental catch in the much larger skipjack tuna fishery. Efforts to halt the overfishing of bigeye stalled due to disagreements over the distribution of costs and...

Part I: Herring: The Fish and Its Utilization, 1878-1966 -- Alaska Herring: The Basics -- Early Development of Alaska's Herring Industry -- Salted Herring: The Early Years -- Early Alaska Herring Fishery Regulation and Research -- Alaska's Herring Industry Expands: 1924-1931 -- A Chronicle of...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected Fiji, hitting at backbone economic sectors, such as international tourism and export fisheries. It has also brought to the fore the need to embark on a more sustainable model of development. This report examines Fiji’s economic and...

Attempts to curb illegal activity by enforcing regulations gets complicated when agents react to the new regulatory regime in unanticipated ways to circumvent enforcement. We present a research strategy that uncovers such reactions, and permits program evaluation net of such adaptive behaviors....

This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters. Certification according to private sustainability standards (ecolabelling) has become an...

Introduction -- Origins and meaning of IUU fishing -- Rationale for an IUU fishing interpretive lens -- Compliance and state responsibility -- IUU fishing as compliance mechanism -- IUU fishing and state accountability -- IUU fishing as flag state accountability paradigm -- Conclusion.

Section 1. Practices of care -- Section 2. Fish as food: Consuming and sustaining -- Section 3. Governing and regulating the oceans -- Section 4. Embodying the marine -- Section 5. Living human and marine ecosystems -- Section 6. Thinking with seas.

"This book will provide an analysis of how a public EU policy will face the challenges of the future. Beyond the interest to people involved in fisheries management, the book is an analysis of how a public EU policy should be evaluated, implemented and reformed. The book analyses the challenges...

The management of internationally shared fish stocks is a major economic, environmental and political issue. According to international law, these resources should be managed cooperatively under international fisheries agreements (IFAs). This paper studies the formation and stability of IFAs...

We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...

This article first examines conditions in aquatic ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. The article then criticizes the Clinton Administration's plan for managing the forests on the west side of the Cascade Mountains on the basis of its likely effectiveness in restoring and protecting healthy...

Fish naturally migrate a lot during their life cycle depending on availability of food and water temperature. Some species migrate between the EEZs of two or more States; these are referred to as ‘shared stock’ and are outside the scope of this essay. Some other species migrate between the...

We study how the strength of property rights to individual extractive firms affects a regulator's choice over exploitation rates for a natural resource. The regulator is modeled as an intermediary between current and future resource harvesters, rather than between producers and consumers, as in...

"The world's fisheries are in crisis. Their catches are declining, and the stocks of key species, such as cod and bluefin tuna, are but a small fraction of their previous abundance, while others have been overfished almost to extinction. The oceans are depleted and the commercial fishing...