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An ecologist's view of economic instruments and incentives

Advice by fisheries scientists to reduce catches or effort is often not fully implemented and efforts to increase impact of advice have often failed. Fisheries scientists rarely discuss the potential contribution of economic instruments to improving the impact of science advice. This paper rejects several possible justifications for the absence of discussion on economic instruments in fisheries ...

May 9, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

The Precautionary Approach at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: the Southern Bluefin Tuna cases

The Southern Bluefin Tuna cases offer a rare judicial pronouncement on the application of the Precautionary Principle in marine conservation. Specifically, the 1999 application for provisional measures to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), initiated by Australia and New Zealand to limit a unilateral Japanese experimental fishing programme, yielded reasoned judicial ...

Feb. 14, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Wet dust collection for Breading line - Case study

Fishery Products International, a division of ConAgra, chooses Tri-Mer. A 5000 cfm Wet Scrubber was Engineered by Tri-Mer for Fishery Products International. The application is a breading line where excess breading is blown off before baking, creating dust which would otherwise settle on piping and other surfaces. In applications such as this, the Whirl Wet scrubber contributes greatly to ...

May 31, 2019

By Tri-Mer Air Pollution Control Systems

Marine protected areas: from conservation to sustainable development

After a period during which MPAs were instrumentalised as a palliative against the inadequacy of a fisheries management conventional approach, the multi-use character of these areas prevailed, conflicts were pacified by instilling a participative process and a plurality of goals is now fully recognised. Thus MPAs are becoming both a tool and a preferred context for sustainable development in its ...

Mar. 27, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Editorial

While the papers included in this issue cover many aspects of marine development and are introuduced in this Editorial, there are some contextual aspects that have not been fully examined. The remainder of the Editorial highlights nine background industries and issues that are pertinent to the topic of the special issue.Keywords: EU maritime policy, marine policy, European Union, dredging, ...

Apr. 11, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Toxicological risks to humans of toxaphene residues in fish

A revised risk assessment for toxaphene was developed, based on the assumption that fish consumers are only exposed to toxaphene residues that differ substantially from technical toxaphene due to environmental degradation and metabolism. In vitro studies confirmed that both technical toxaphene and degraded toxaphene inhibit gap junctional intercellular communication that correlates with the ...

Mar. 13, 2012

By John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Durability of quality of life enhancement of social community networks after the tsunami disaster in Aceh

On the 26th December 2004 an Indian Ocean Tsunami took away hundred thousands of lives, houses and livelihoods. Most indigenous local people chose to settle in the same at–risk coastline after the disaster. The purpose of this research is to investigate how the tsunami survivors have recovered and enhanced their quality of life. In Meunasah Balee village, there was nothing left behind except for ...

Jul. 29, 2013

By Inderscience Publishers

Ocean acidification ‘could have consequences for Millions’

Ocean acidification could have serious consequences for the millions of people globally whose lives depend on coastal protection, fisheries and aquaculture, a new publication suggests. Ocean acidification could have serious consequences for the millions of people globally whose lives depend on coastal protection, fisheries and aquaculture, a new publication suggests. Writing in Emerging Topics ...

Apr. 26, 2019

By Environmental News Network (ENN)

Managing environmental impacts of fishing: input controls versus outcome-oriented approaches

Fishery management has focused primarily on limiting the total catch of key target species to sustainable levels, but fishery managers and the public are becoming increasingly concerned with environmental impacts of fishing such as damage to habitat and bycatch of non-target species, particularly marine mammals and seabirds. There are two main approaches to managing environmental impacts of ...

May 9, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Will the “Friends of Climate” emerge in the WTO? The prospects of applying the “Fisheries Subsidies” model to energy subsidies

Notwithstanding the potential virtues of subsidies in certain circumstances, this form of government intervention in markets mainly through financial or fiscal means may have huge negative impacts in addition to the effects on efficiency and trade. Fish stock depletion and man-made global warming are two examples of cases in which a subsidy could have detrimental effects on the environment. The ...

Mar. 1, 2008

By Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

An Enforcement-Coalition Model: Fishermen and Authorities Forming Coalitions

The paper sets up a four-stage enforcement model of fish quotas. The purpose of the paper is to show how the level of enforcement set by the authorities affects the way fishermen form coalitions. We show that a high level of control effort yields less co-operation among fishermen, while in the case of low control effort, coalitions are somewhat self-enforcing. The paper further discusses how the ...

Nov. 1, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Integrated maritime policy for the EU working document III

One of the elements of the integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union1 that the Commission is pursuing is enhanced interoperability and integration between existing maritime surveillance and monitoring systems, across the different maritime sectors. As a first step it is necessary to have better awareness of the present situation. This report tries to summarise some information on existing ...

Jan. 8, 2008

By European Commission

Economic valuation of a multiple use wetland water system: a case study from India

In the Gangetic floodplain of West Bengal, multiple use wetlands (MUW) play a significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these multiple use systems are being converted into single use systems for commercial gain by economically, socially and politically dominant groups. Compared to single use water systems, MUW benefit a larger number of people belonging to different ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish

The recognition of the important role of the polar habitats in global climate changes has awakened great interest in the evolutionary biology of the organisms that live there, as well as the increasing threat of loss of biological diversity and depletion of marine fisheries. These organisms are exposed to strong environmental constraints, and it is important to understand how they have adapted ...

Sep. 5, 2006

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

The Problems of Fishermen in the Southern Aral Sea Region

The main objective of this paper is the presentation of water scarcity and water quality problems of fishery and fishermen in the southern Aral Sea region Kazakhstan. We tried in the past to inform interested people about our suggestions how to rehabilitate the situation, how to produce relatively enough fish for the functioning of local fish processing industry and to give people jobs, but we ...

Jan. 1, 2005

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Infographic: Why even landlubbers need healthy oceans

Oceans around the world face a fierce array of threats: plastic pollution, overfishing, acidification, climate change and more. The infographic above from the World Bank highlights the importance of oceans to the health of the planet and economies around the world. For example, coastal habitats store five times more carbon than do tropical forests, and 90 percent of the people whose livelihood ...

Mar. 31, 2016

By Ensia

Politics of marine conservation area in Indonesia: from a centralised to a decentralised system

This paper aims to analyse the current situation resulting from the Marine Conservation Area (MCA) in Indonesia in terms of the legal framework, institutional conflicts and the response of the local people. A case study of the centralised and decentralised MCA in West Lombok is presented, and the process of establishing the MCA and its institutional performance are reviewed. The performance of a ...

Sep. 15, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Ocean effluent discharge - Case study

British Columbia’s fly-in recreational fishing lodge industry was threatened by federal regulators to be closed or fined up to $200,000 unless the sewage wastewater was treated. NOMADIC kept them open and operating. Three types of fly-in recreational fishing lodges are located on the west coast of British Columbia operate 6 – 8 weeks per year, employ approximately 500 persons for ...

Jul. 23, 2015

By Nomadic Systems Inc.

Coastal Capital: Economic valuation of coral reefs in Tobago and St. Lucia

The economic benefits derived from coral reefs are vital to the economies of small island states in the Caribbean. Economic valuation of these benefits helps to guide the wise, sustainable use of these resources. Coral reefs provide many benefits, sometimes called ecosystem goods and services, which are of high value and critical importance to local and national economies in the Caribbean. ...

Jun. 1, 2008

By World Resources Institute WRI

For Marine Biologist Greg Skomal, Every Week is ‘Shark Week’

Sunday night Discovery Channel kicked off its 32nd annual “Shark Week,” a wildly successful programming binge that draws millions of viewers fascinated by the deep’s most intimidating creatures. But for Massachusetts’ Greg Skomal – a regular guest during the frenzy of programming – Shark Week happens 52 times a year. The 58-year-old marine biologist is in ...

Aug. 12, 2020

By Innovasea

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