Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution
Abstract The introduction of 200 n.m. exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the late 1970s required increased collaboration among neighbouring coastal states to manage transboundary and straddling fish stocks. The established agreements ranged from bilateral to multilateral, including high‐seas compone...
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crwiley:10.1111/faf.12485 2024-10-13T14:06:18+00:00 Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution Gullestad, Peter Sundby, Svein Kjesbu, Olav Sigurd Directorate of Fisheries (Norway): Post-Retirement Contract of Employment Institute of Marine Research (Norway): Post-Retirement Contract of Employment Norwegian Fisheries Research Sales Tax System (FFA): CLIMRATES (Climate and Vital Rates of Marine Stocks), Institute of Marine Research (Norway), Project no. 15205 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12485 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ffaf.12485 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/faf.12485 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/faf.12485 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Fish and Fisheries volume 21, issue 5, page 1008-1026 ISSN 1467-2960 1467-2979 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12485 2024-09-23T04:36:40Z Abstract The introduction of 200 n.m. exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the late 1970s required increased collaboration among neighbouring coastal states to manage transboundary and straddling fish stocks. The established agreements ranged from bilateral to multilateral, including high‐seas components, as appropriate. However, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea does not specify how quotas of stocks crossing EEZs should be allocated, nor was it written for topical scenarios, such as climate change with poleward distribution shifts that differ across species. The productive Northeast Atlantic is a hot spot for such shifts, implying that scientific knowledge about zonal distribution is crucial in quota negotiations. This diverges from earlier, although still valid, agreements that were predominately based on political decisions or historical distribution of catches. The bilateral allocations for Barents Sea and North Sea cod remain robust after 40 years, but the management situation for widely distributed stocks, as Northeast Atlantic mackerel and Norwegian spring‐spawning herring, appears challenging, with no recent overall agreements. Contrarily, quotas of Northern hake are, so far, unilaterally set by the EU despite the stock's expansion beyond EU waters into the northern North Sea. Negotiations following the introduction of EEZs were undertaken at the end of the last cooler Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) period, that is, with stock distributions generally in a southerly mode. Hence, today's lack of management consensus for several widely distributed fish stocks typically relates to more northerly distributions attributed to the global anthropogenic signal accelerating the spatial effect of the current warmer AMO. Article in Journal/Newspaper Barents Sea Northeast Atlantic Wiley Online Library Barents Sea Hake ENVELOPE(15.612,15.612,66.797,66.797) Fish and Fisheries 21 5 1008 1026 |
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Abstract The introduction of 200 n.m. exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the late 1970s required increased collaboration among neighbouring coastal states to manage transboundary and straddling fish stocks. The established agreements ranged from bilateral to multilateral, including high‐seas components, as appropriate. However, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea does not specify how quotas of stocks crossing EEZs should be allocated, nor was it written for topical scenarios, such as climate change with poleward distribution shifts that differ across species. The productive Northeast Atlantic is a hot spot for such shifts, implying that scientific knowledge about zonal distribution is crucial in quota negotiations. This diverges from earlier, although still valid, agreements that were predominately based on political decisions or historical distribution of catches. The bilateral allocations for Barents Sea and North Sea cod remain robust after 40 years, but the management situation for widely distributed stocks, as Northeast Atlantic mackerel and Norwegian spring‐spawning herring, appears challenging, with no recent overall agreements. Contrarily, quotas of Northern hake are, so far, unilaterally set by the EU despite the stock's expansion beyond EU waters into the northern North Sea. Negotiations following the introduction of EEZs were undertaken at the end of the last cooler Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) period, that is, with stock distributions generally in a southerly mode. Hence, today's lack of management consensus for several widely distributed fish stocks typically relates to more northerly distributions attributed to the global anthropogenic signal accelerating the spatial effect of the current warmer AMO. |
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Directorate of Fisheries (Norway): Post-Retirement Contract of Employment Institute of Marine Research (Norway): Post-Retirement Contract of Employment Norwegian Fisheries Research Sales Tax System (FFA): CLIMRATES (Climate and Vital Rates of Marine Stocks), Institute of Marine Research (Norway), Project no. 15205 |
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Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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Management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the Northeast Atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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management of transboundary and straddling fish stocks in the northeast atlantic in view of climate‐induced shifts in spatial distribution |
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