We combine information from several global fisheries databases including
those from the Sea Around Us Project (www.seaaroundus.org) and the
Fisheries Economics Research Unit (http://feru.org) to project the future
potential gains in human welfare under the assumption that (i) global
fisheries continue the current declining trend observed over the last several...
The UN Law of the Sea of 1982 assigned rights and responsibilities to the
fishery resources within 200 nautical miles of the coast (i.e.,the Exclusive
Economic Zones: EEZs) to the adjacent maritime countries. A key
responsibility is the requirement that these countries manage their marine
living resources sustainably through time...