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Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration

… 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unreg- ulated fishing … fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that con- tribute to … certain forms of fishery subsidies which contribute to overfishing etc.” In this case, the for- mulation of the …
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Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean

… to a decline of global marine and freshwater biodiversity. Overfishing is depleting fish stocks, while intensive and … in freshwater and inshore areas are also at risk from overfishing and destructive fishing methods. Unsustainable … Certain fish, whose stocks are now dramatically low due to overfishing, are banned. Many are only permitted if there is …
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Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis

… safe fishing gear,74 the prevention or elimination of overfishing and excess capacity, and the limitation of 65 UN … fishing activities would have to be characterized as overfishing.150 It may thus be argued that Article 61(2) … zone of Java, for instance, has been severely affected by overfishing since the early 1990s.32 Similarly, Spalding …
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Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal

… %�&�� �� � ����'������ �����������, World- watch; 1994. � Overfishing of the world’s marine resources is the main cause … interven- tions to restore sustainable yields. Widespread overfishing is generally recognized as a growing threat to … having a direct causal relationship with recent trends in overfishing. However, opinions still differ as to the …
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Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020

… continue to be fragmented and degraded (Target 5). Overfishing continues to be a major problem, with an … and ecosystems are within safe ecological limits, i.e. overfishing avoided 2 Overexploitation remains an issue … increasing, although new marine protected areas may ease overfishing in some reef regions Multiple anthropogenic …
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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… and 60 per cent could be lost by 2030. Threats include overfishing, use of destructive fishing methods, coral … storm damage and a range of human activities, including overfishing, use of destructive fishing gear, anchor damage … keep them in control have declined through disease and overfishing. Algae have further increased as a result of …
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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… legally and applying ecosystem based approaches, so that overfishing is avoided, recovery plans and measures are in … 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and … legally and applying ecosystem based approaches, so that overfishing is avoided, recovery plans and measures are in …
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The status of natural resources on the high-seas

… national fisheries jurisdictions are often subject to overfishing by distant water fleets. This is the case for … South Pacific and North Atlantic oceans. The problem of overfishing on the high-seas has become particularly acute in … depleted (6 per cent) or very slowly recovering from overfishing (3 per cent). Typically, fleets on the high-seas …
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Legislating for property rights in fisheries

… has proved that this is no longer so. The problems of overfishing in an open- access regime were already becoming … ago2, and in 1911 Jens Warming stressed the dangers of overfishing.3 This was borne out by observation of the … be obliged to compete with their counterparts resulting in overfishing • because they must bear the cost of bad …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… increased fishing effort, and the impacts of years of overfishing and under-reporting of catches are resulting in … Management and Ecology, vol. 1 (1994), p. 31 at 31-32. 170 Overfishing, particularly on the high seas, was considered … that the stock is not yet in an overfished state but that overfishing is occurring. Recent catch levels have been …
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