The blue economy is being promoted as capable of achieving sustainability and prosperity,
fair use of the ocean and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ensuring a more …

Coastal communities, indigenous peoples, and small-scale fishers rely on the ocean for
livelihoods, for subsistence, for wellbeing and for cultural continuity. Thus, understanding the …

Migrations of large pelagic fishes across the Pacific are usually inferred from tagging or
genetic studies. Even though these techniques have improved over time, they still fail to …

Climate change is causing fish stocks to shift, upending the social-ecological systems that
rely on the historic distributions of these stocks and creating or exacerbating fisheries …

Spatial protection measures have become ubiquitous in fisheries management and marine
conservation. Implemented for diverse objectives from stock rebuilding to biodiversity …

Co‐operation in the management of shared fish stocks is often necessary to achieve
sustainability and reduce uncertainty. The United States of America (USA) and Mexico share …

There is an urgent need for developing policy-relevant future scenarios of biodiversity and
ecosystem services. This paper is a milestone toward this aim focusing on open ocean …

This study evaluates the frameworks of 12 Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
(RFMOs) against 28 criteria to assess whether these organizations can effectively respond …

One of the most promising economic arenas in the coming decades is the ocean and there
are currently numerous initiatives to the 'blue economy'discourse that revolves around the …

In 2010 the UK-based organisation, released a pioneering report which attempted to
estimate the number of wild sea animals killed each year as part of commercial fishing. Data …