In the Age of Big Conferences – Our Ocean Stands Out • Stimson Center
The Environmental Security team convenes global partners to address climate risk and IUU fishing at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece.
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The Environmental Security team convenes global partners to address climate risk and IUU fishing at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece.
Honolulu, HAWAII — The nation’s eight regional fishery management councils have released a first-ever compilation of conservation areas in federal waters of the United States,
The pelagic fisheries beyond the continental shelves are currently managed with a range of tools largely based on regulating effort or target catch. These tools comprise both static and dynamic area-based approaches to include gear limitations, closed areas and bycatch limits. There are increasing calls for additional area-based interventions, particularly expansion of marine protected areas, with many now advocating closing 30% of the oceans to fishing. In this paper, we review the objectives, methods and successes of area-based management of blue water fisheries across objectives related to ...