Climate change and management of shared and straddling fish stocks: Nothing (new) to see here, folks?

Serdy, Andrew (2024) Climate change and management of shared and straddling fish stocks: Nothing (new) to see here, folks? In, Kunoy, Bjørn, Heidar, Tomas and Yiallourides, Constantinos (eds.) International Fisheries Law: Persistent and Emerging Challenges. 1 ed. Taylor & Francis, pp. 357-370. (doi:10.4324/9781003492030-31).

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Abstract

This chapter demonstrates that international fisheries law does not need a radical transformation to cope with the consequences for management of shared and straddling stocks when they redistribute themselves across international boundaries in response to either anthropogenic global warming or pre-existing climatic cycles advancing from one phase to the next. Rather, these phenomena reinforce the need for States and the regional fisheries management organisations through which they cooperate to make their allocative regimes more responsive to such changes through pre-agreed mechanisms that avoid assuming that the stock concerned will not move, or will move in one direction only - something that is easier when it is uncertain which States will gain and which will lose in relation to individual stocks, even if the aggregate trend is predictable and so too the rise in frequency of sudden shifts. Reopening of settled exclusive economic zone boundaries is not the answer; transferability of quotas may be but would require a sounder basis for rights claimed to derive from participation in high seas fisheries than currently exists.

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