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While much attention has been focused on the level and impact of IUU fishing on sub Saharan Africa, much less work has been undertaken and less is known on how and to what extent IUU fishing affects the Asia-Pacific region. As part of a larger project commissioned by the Asia...
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Both the physical volume and economic value of trade in seafood products among countries on the Pacific Rim have grown steadily in recent years. Concurrently, the distribution of production and the composition of products have changed. Regional economic accounts such as IMPLAN do not provide bilateral information on trade, and...
Bycatch of non-targeted species in marine fisheries has become a major policy issue in fisheries management over recent years. One approach to curbing the bycatch problem is the voluntary sharing of detailed spatiotemporal information between vessels as an aide in individual bycatch avoidance as well as a tool to lower...
The Western Central Pacific Fishery Commission (WCPFC) was inaugurated in 2004 after a preparatory process which commenced in 1996. Scientific advice is that skipjack stocks are in good condition, but bigeye and yellowfin stocks are being exploited too heavily and reductions of effort are needed to avoid overfishing. Compared to...
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on salmon fishery governance in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest U.S. Here the physical and ecological effects of climate change are expected to be significant and to include alterations in freshwater and marine aquatic habitat that will affect the...
Although the ocean provides living space for about 97 percent of life on Earth, less than 5 percent of the ocean below the surface has actually been seen, let alone explored. Now, using the geographic information system (GIS), marine scientists are gaining new insights into a once-mysterious world. A technologically...