Positioning fisheries in a changing world

R. Quentin Grafton, Ray Hilborn, Lori Ridgeway, Dale Squires, Meryl Williams, Serge Garcia, Theodore Groves (), James Joseph, Kieran Kelleher, Tom Kompas, Gary Libecap, Carl Gustaf Lundin, Mitsutaku Makino, Þórólfur Matthíasson (), Richard McLoughlin, Ana Parma, Gustavo San Martin, Ben Satia, Carl-Christian Schmidt, Maree Tait and Lin Xiu Zhang

Marine Policy, 2008, vol. 32, issue 4, 630-634

Abstract: Marine capture fisheries face major and complex challenges: habitat degradation, poor economic returns, social hardships from depleted stocks, illegal fishing, and climate change, among others. The key factors that prevent the transition to sustainable fisheries are information failures, transition costs, use and non-use conflicts and capacity constraints. Using the experiences of fisheries successes and failures it is argued only through better governance and institutional change that encompasses the public good of the oceans (biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, sustainability) and societal values (existence, aesthetic and amenity) will fisheries be made sustainable.

Keywords: Governance; Public; and; private; benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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