Creating Legal Teeth for Toothfish: Using the Market to Protect Fish Stocks in Antarctica |
| |
| Authors: | Sovacool Benjamin K; Siman-Sovacool Kelly E |
| |
| Institution: | *Dr Benjamin K. Sovacool currently teaches in the Government and International Affairs Program at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, VA. He is a former Eugene P. Wigner Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, where he studied issues relating to science policy and sustainability (sovacool{at}vt.edu).
**Kelly E. Siman-Sovacool spent five years working for the Raytheon Polar Services Company at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. She is currently a graduate student in the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech, where she researches Antarctic science policy (simanke{at}vt.edu). |
| |
| Abstract: | Policies to protect Antarctic and Patagonian Toothfish in theSouthern Ocean are failing. Contests over sovereignty, the needfor international decisions to be approved by consensus, inabilityto physically patrol the Southern Ocean, and the political vacuumcreated by the designation of the ‘high seas’ haveeach contributed to an overfishing crisis in the Southern Oceanand Antarctica. After documenting the contours of this fishingcrisis and explaining how international law is unable to preventit, this article proposes a fundamental shift in strategy awayfrom supply-side controls that require a presence in Antarcticawhere the overfishing occurs. Lawmakers must utilise more rigorousdemand-side measures if Toothfish stocks are to be preservedand allowed to recover. |
| |
| Keywords: | Marine policy overfishing Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Patagonian Toothfish flags of convenience illegal unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing |
| 本文献已被 Oxford 等数据库收录！ |
