Closing the High Seas to Fishing: A Club Approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. Green ◽  
Bryce Rudyk
Keyword(s):  
High Seas

Who Can Fish What and Where: Chile's Tradeoffs in High Seas Fishing of Straddling Stocks

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIO PEÑA-TORRES ◽  
RODOLFO SERRA ◽  
MICHAEL BASCH
Keyword(s):  
High Seas

scholarly journals The Salas y Gómez and Nazca ridges: A review of the importance, opportunities and challenges for protecting a global diversity hotspot on the high seas

Marine Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 104377
Author(s):  
Daniel Wagner ◽  
Liesbeth van der Meer ◽  
Matthias Gorny ◽  
Javier Sellanes ◽  
Carlos F. Gaymer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Diversity ◽  
High Seas

scholarly journals The global network of ports supporting high seas fishing

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. eabe3470
Author(s):  
Jorge P. Rodríguez ◽  
Juan Fernández-Gracia ◽  
Carlos M. Duarte ◽  
Xabier Irigoien ◽  
Víctor M. Eguíluz
Keyword(s):  
Fishing Effort ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
The Commons ◽  
High Seas

Fisheries in waters beyond national jurisdiction (“high seas”) are difficult to monitor and manage. Their regulation for sustainability requires critical information on how fishing effort is distributed across fishing and landing areas, including possible border effects at the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) limits. We infer the global network linking harbors supporting fishing vessels to fishing areas in high seas from automatic identification system tracking data in 2014, observing a modular structure, with vessels departing from a given harbor fishing mostly in a single province. The top 16% of these harbors support 84% of fishing effort in high seas, with harbors in low- and middle-income countries ranked among the top supporters. Fishing effort concentrates along narrow strips attached to the boundaries of EEZs with productive fisheries, identifying a free-riding behavior that jeopardizes efforts by nations to sustainably manage their fisheries, perpetuating the tragedy of the commons affecting global fishery resources.

Re-evaluating the Admiralty Jurisdiction of Nigeria's Federal High Court in the Age of Combined Transport Shipping

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Festus O Ukwueze ◽  
Herbert A Umezuruike ◽  
Dike J Ibegbulem
Keyword(s):  
High Court ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
English Law ◽  
High Seas

Abstract This article critically examines the admiralty jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria in relation to claims arising from combined transport shipping. It questions the rationale for the continued circumscription of the court's admiralty jurisdiction to activities on navigable waters based on English law pedigree. It argues that, in the present era of containerization and combined transport shipping, it has become imperative to unshackle Nigerian courts from English antecedents that limit the admiralty jurisdiction of the court to activities on the high seas. The article identifies extant national legislation, a continental instrument and recent judicial authorities that provide the basis for expanding the Federal High Court's admiralty jurisdiction to accommodate the adjudication of claims derived from combined transport shipping beyond the locale of the high seas.

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