Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit
The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) stretches approximately 6,000 nautical miles across numerous jurisdictions, from the archipelagos of Southeast Asia to the remote atolls of Kiribati in the Central Pacific. This vast ocean is home to the world's most productive tuna fisheries, supply...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:lhapapers-2949 2023-05-15T17:32:26+02:00 Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit Hanich, Quentin A Tsamenyi, Ben M 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1943 unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/lhapapers/1943 Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers implementation progress sharing pacific central western tunas yellowfin bigeye measures benefit management burden conservation Arts and Humanities Law book_contribution 2014 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T11:36:00Z The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) stretches approximately 6,000 nautical miles across numerous jurisdictions, from the archipelagos of Southeast Asia to the remote atolls of Kiribati in the Central Pacific. This vast ocean is home to the world's most productive tuna fisheries, supplying global markets with skipjack, bigeye, yellowfin and albacore worth approximately US$5.5 billion.3 These fisheries are critically different from other tuna fisheries in that 87 per cent of all reported WCPO tuna catches are harvested from waters under national jurisdiction.4 Unlike the high seas tuna fisheries of the Eastern Pacific, Indian Ocean and North Atlantic, the WCPO tuna fisheries are predominantly owned by a small group of developing coastal States. Book Part North Atlantic University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Indian Pacific |
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The Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) stretches approximately 6,000 nautical miles across numerous jurisdictions, from the archipelagos of Southeast Asia to the remote atolls of Kiribati in the Central Pacific. This vast ocean is home to the world's most productive tuna fisheries, supplying global markets with skipjack, bigeye, yellowfin and albacore worth approximately US$5.5 billion.3 These fisheries are critically different from other tuna fisheries in that 87 per cent of all reported WCPO tuna catches are harvested from waters under national jurisdiction.4 Unlike the high seas tuna fisheries of the Eastern Pacific, Indian Ocean and North Atlantic, the WCPO tuna fisheries are predominantly owned by a small group of developing coastal States. |
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Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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Progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central Pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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progress in the implementation of conservation and management measures for bigeye and yellowfin tunas in the western and central pacific: sharing the conservation burden and benefit |
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