Norway and Russia: Bargaining Precautionary Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea
The Barents Sea contains some of the most valuable fish resources in the world, including the world’s largest cod stock. Since the mid-1970s, Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia have managed the most important stocks in the area together, through the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission. Duri...
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ftjarlp:oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/53 2023-10-25T01:32:51+02:00 Norway and Russia: Bargaining Precautionary Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea Hønneland, Geir 2014-04-30 application/pdf https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/53 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v5.53 eng eng University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/53/53 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/53 doi:10.23865/arctic.v5.53 Copyright (c) 2014 Arctic Review https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Arctic Review on Law and Politics; Vol. 5 No. 1 (2014) 2387-4562 Barents Sea fisheries management precautionary principle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2014 ftjarlp https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v5.53 2023-09-27T22:52:26Z The Barents Sea contains some of the most valuable fish resources in the world, including the world’s largest cod stock. Since the mid-1970s, Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia have managed the most important stocks in the area together, through the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission. During the 1990s, the precautionary approach was adopted as the leading device for global fisheries management, introducing a requirement for additional precaution when scientific evidence is uncertain, as well as a number of practical regulatory measures related to scientific research, regulation and enforcement. Since the late 1990s, the Joint Commission has gradually adopted a number of measures required by the precautionary approach. Russia has never formally introduced the principle in its own fisheries legislation, but by and large employed regulatory measures in line with it. The article presents the major precautionary regulatory measures adopted by the Commission, including precautionary reference points for spawning stocks and fish mortality, a harvest control rule for quota settlement and various enforcement initiatives. A particular focus is on Norwegian–Russian collaboration and how Norway has bargained with Russia for precautionary management measures.Keywords: Barents Sea, fisheries management, precautionary principleCitation: Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 5, 1/2014 pp. 75–99. ISSN 1891-6252 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Arctic review on law and politics Barents Sea Arctic Review on Law and Politics Arctic Barents Sea Norway Arctic Review on Law and Politics 5 1 |
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The Barents Sea contains some of the most valuable fish resources in the world, including the world’s largest cod stock. Since the mid-1970s, Norway and the Soviet Union/Russia have managed the most important stocks in the area together, through the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission. During the 1990s, the precautionary approach was adopted as the leading device for global fisheries management, introducing a requirement for additional precaution when scientific evidence is uncertain, as well as a number of practical regulatory measures related to scientific research, regulation and enforcement. Since the late 1990s, the Joint Commission has gradually adopted a number of measures required by the precautionary approach. Russia has never formally introduced the principle in its own fisheries legislation, but by and large employed regulatory measures in line with it. The article presents the major precautionary regulatory measures adopted by the Commission, including precautionary reference points for spawning stocks and fish mortality, a harvest control rule for quota settlement and various enforcement initiatives. A particular focus is on Norwegian–Russian collaboration and how Norway has bargained with Russia for precautionary management measures.Keywords: Barents Sea, fisheries management, precautionary principleCitation: Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 5, 1/2014 pp. 75–99. ISSN 1891-6252 |
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