Evaluating Compliance and Enforcement Mechanisms of Regional Fishery Management Organizations
Date
2022-04-22
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Halpin, Patrick
Carmine, Gabrielle
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Abstract
Established by international agreements or treaties, Regional Fisheries Management
Organizations (RFMOs) manage fisheries on the high seas, or ocean areas beyond national
jurisdiction. Countries interested in joining an RFMO for access to highly migratory
species such as tuna are subject to legally binding conservation management measures
(CMMs) and convention mandates created by the organization. Historically, the overall
effectiveness of RFMOs for protecting valuable high seas fisheries and their ecosystems
has been called into question and there has been a recent push from consumers for
increased seafood traceability. This project critically evaluates compliance and enforcement
of CMMs and is a component of a larger comprehensive performance review of the current
seventeen global RFMOs by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Duke, NYU, and
the Stockholm Resilience Centre led by Duke Marine Lab PhD student Gabrielle Carmine.
In this evaluation, RFMOs were scored using a set of ten different criteria to assess
existing compliance mechanisms and understand existing levels of transparency within
high seas fisheries management.
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