The EU's is adopting Rights-based Management or Transferable Fishing Concessions. What are the implications of this policy for the ACP countries. The EU-ACP Joint Parliament Assembly in Horsens, Denmark June 2012 ended up formulating a declaration on futures fisheries agreements. This short film will take you to the conference and some of the pros and cons of this new approach.
Revised Estimates of China’s Distant Water Fishing Fleet /
not much need to be said...
Our confused distaste for utility, didacticism, and simplicity... /
Just read this and i think that it could apply to many consultants i have worked with (hopefully I'm not complicating this too much!!!)
..."Our resistance to parabolic methodologhy stems from the confused distaste for utility, didacticism, and simplicity, and from an unquestioned assumption that anything a child could understand must of necessity be infantile in nature, and therefore is not profesional."
Alain de Botton
Ten "Commandments" for Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Scientists /
(1) Keep a perspective that is holistic, risk-averse, and adaptive.
(2) Question key assumptions, no matter how basic.
(3) Maintain old-growth age structure in fish populations.
(4) Characterize and maintain the natural spatial structure of fish stocks.
(5) Characterize and maintain viable fish habitats.
(6) Characterize and maintain ecosystem resilience.
(7) Identify and maintain critical food-web connections.
(8) Account for ecosystem change through time.
(9) Account for evolutionary change caused by fishing.
(10) Implement an approach that is integrated, interdisciplinary, and inclusive.
RC Francis et all (2007)
What you need to know about radiation in Pacific Seafood /
There is no question that there are major concerns regarding the effects of radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on human health and the environment. However, the key results from these studies and from the government tests have been misrepresented in the media and have led to the concern that seafood in the Pacific is contaminated from the Fukushima plant and unsafe to eat. While Japanese subsistence fishers may need to take caution, people eating seafood from the eastern Pacific do not need to spend too much time worrying. Based on the scientific information available, consuming Pacific seafood is safe.
Understanding Drivers and Environmental Impacts of China’s Distant Water Fishing Fleet /
“China’s massive distant-water fishing fleet is problematic for a few reasons, the most prominent being that a significant portion of its catch is illegal, unreported, or unregulated,” the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Katie Lebling wrote in a Nov. 11 research brief. That means it’s impossible to ensure sustainable fishing practices.