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Journal / article | 2018
Blasiak, R., Jouffray, J-B., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Sundström, E., Österblom, H. 2018. Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources.Sci. Adv. 2018;4: eaar5237
Who owns ocean biodiversity? This is an increasingly relevant question, given the legal uncertainties associated with the use of genetic resources from areas beyond national jurisdiction, which cover half of the Earth’s surface. We accessed 38 million records of genetic sequences associated with patents and created a database of 12,998 sequences extracted from 862 marine species. We identified >1600 sequences from 91 species a...
Buck, B. H. Troell, M.F., Krause, G., Angel, D.L., Grote, B., Chopin, T. 2018. State of the Art and Challenges for Offshore Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA). Front. Mar. Sci., 15 May 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00165
By moving away from coastal waters and hence reducing pressure on nearshore ecosystems, offshore aquaculture can be seen as a possible step towards the large-scale expansion of marine food production. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) in nearshore water bodies has received increasing attention and could therefore play a role in the transfer of aquaculture operations to offshore areas. IMTA holds scope for multi-use o...
Spijkers J., Morrison, T.H., Blasiak, R., et al. 2018. Marine fisheries and future ocean conflict. Fish Fish. 2018;00:1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12291
Conflict over marine fishery resources is a growing security concern. Experts expect that global changes in our climate, food systems and oceans may spark or exacerbate resource conflicts. An initial scan of 803 relevant papers and subsequent intensive review of 31 fisheries conflict studies, focused on subnational and international conflicts, suggests that four substantial scientific gaps need addressing to improve our unders...
Oyinlola, M.A., Reygondeau, G., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Troell, M., Cheung, W.W.L. 2018. Global estimation of areas with suitable environmental conditions for mariculture species. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.019108
Aquaculture has grown rapidly over the last three decades expanding at an average annual growth rate of 5.8% (2005–2014), down from 8.8% achieved between 1980 and 2010. The sector now produces 44% of total food fish production. Increasing demand and consumption from a growing global population are driving further expansion of both inland and marine aquaculture (i.e., mariculture, including marine species farmed on land). Howev...
Journal / article | 2017
Österblom, H., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Nevonen, N., Veem, K. (2017) Tinkering with a tanker – slow evolution of a Swedish ecosystem approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74: 443-452 10.1093/icesjms/fsw232
The ecosystem approach is a salient policy paradigm originating from a scientific understanding of the reality of complex ecosystem dynamics. In this article, we investigate how Swedish national marine policies and practice between 2002 and 2015 have changed towards an ecosystem approach. Government documents, the scientific literature, institutional changes, changes in legislation, pilot projects, and changes in science and p...
Boonstra, W., Valman, M., Björkvik, E. 2017. A sea of many colours – How relevant is Blue Growth for capture fisheries in the Global North, and vice versa? Marine Policy, in press, available online 28 September 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.09.007
Blue Growth is a relatively new term that is meant to realize economic growth based on the exploitation of marine resources, while at the same time preventing their degradation, overuse, and pollution. This article discusses the relevance and usefulness of this new concept for the development of capture fisheries, a sector where growth largely seems impossible without ecological devastation. An analytical distinction between i...
Report | 2017
Havenhand, J., A-S. Crépin, H.L. Filipsson, S. Jagers, D. Langlet, S. Matti, S. Niiranen, M. Troell, L.G. Anderson, V. Galaz, E. Kritzberg, D. Turner, M. Winder, P. de Wit. 2017. Acidification of Swedish seas in a changing environment: causes, consequences, and responses. The Environmental committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Other publication | 2017
Cao, L., R. Naylor, P. Henriksson, D. Leadbitter, M. Troell, W. Zhang. 2017. Rebuttal to Han et al., Reviews in Aquaculture, 2016 doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27925.93928.
As authors of " China's aquaculture and the world's fisheries " (Cao et al., Science, 2015), we would like to dispute several claims presented in " A revisit to fishmeal usage and associated consequences in Chinese aquaculture " (Han et al., Reviews in Aquaculture, 2016), as the latter seriously misrepresents the intent and substance of our Science paper. In their review, Han and colleagues argue that although China's aquacult...
Torres, M.A., M. Casini, M. Huss, S.A. Otto, M. Kadin, A. Gårdmark. 2017. Food-web indicators accounting for species interactions respond to multiple pressures. Ecological Indicators 77: 67-79.
Food-web indicators for marine management are required to describe the functioning and structure of marine food-webs. In Europe, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), intended to lead to a ‘good environmental status’ of the marine waters, requires indicators of the status of the marine environment that also respond to manageable anthropogenic pressures. Identifying such relationships to pressures is particularly chal...
Stoll, J.S., E. Fuller, B.I. Crona. 2017. Uneven adaptive capacity among fishers in a sea of change. Plos One 12(6): e0178266.
Fishers worldwide operate in an environment of uncertainty and constant change. Their ability to manage risk associated with such uncertainty and subsequently adapt to change is largely a function of individual circumstances, including their access to different fisheries. However, explicit attention to the heterogeneity of fishers’ connections to fisheries at the level of the individual has been largely ignored. We illustrate ...
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