Marine Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Marine Policy is 10. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assessing the potential areas for developing offshore wind energy in Japanese territorial waters considering national zoning and possible social conflicts108
Whose benefit? A comparative perspective for the ISA89
A social cost-benefit analysis of shellfish beds on the Dutch coast as a nature-based measure against climate change83
Beyond bluewashing: A critical examination of labeling blue bonds83
Assessing the implications of short-term exemption clauses for insurers in Chinese fishery mutual insurance contracts75
Participatory stock assessment in West Java contributes to the management of glass eel fisheries in Indonesia68
Adapting the Marine Stewardship Council risk-based framework to estimate impacts on seabirds, marine mammals, marine turtles and sea snakes65
Opportunities and challenges in value chain analysis for sustainable management of sharks and rays63
The bumpy road to conservation: Challenges and opportunities in updating the Galapagos zoning system58
A new cold war at sea: Fishing rights vs. the proliferation of military activities in the EEZ57
Ocean management and rights of Nature: The case of the Galapagos in Ecuador and beyond55
Human well-being outcomes of large-scale marine protected areas54
Pacific tuna update: 20th Meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission52
Regional trade integration and its relation to income and inequalities among Tanzanian marine dagaa fishers, processors and traders50
Recreationist perceptions of lethal and non-lethal management of sharks in two of South Africa’s marine areas49
The relationship between general principles of international law and Article 38(1) of the ICJ statute: A law of the sea perspective49
The use of a spatial model of economic efficiency to predict the most likely outcomes under different fishing strategy scenarios48
Fisheries and aquaculture in Togo: Overview, performance, fisheries policy, challenges and comparative study with Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal fisheries and aquaculture48
Concerns about illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, carbon footprint, and the impact of fuel subsidy - An economic analysis of the Black Sea anchovy fishery47
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the shrimp industry of Iran47
Global climate change risk to fisheries – A multi-risk assessment46
Small pelagic fish in Senegal: a multi-usage resource46
Foresighting future oceans: Considerations and opportunities45
Illegal fishing threatens the sustainability of future tuna commodities in Indonesia44
Impact of sci-tech finance on the innovation efficiency of China's marine industry44
Mortality and management matter: Case study on use and misuse of ‘ranching’ for a CITES Appendix II-listed fish, humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus)43
Policy impacts of intellectual property and academic research trends in marine-derived collagen and chitin/chitosan value chains42
Coordination of planning regulations at the edge of water and land. Conflicts within planning policy for urban blue space in small and medium-sized Polish port cities and possible directions of change42
Expert opinions on threats and impacts in the marine environment42
Editorial Board42
Lessons learnt from the first large-scale biodegradable FAD research experiment to mitigate drifting FADs impacts on the ecosystem41
Knowledge, perception and ownership by local stakeholders among the world’s largest shark sanctuary a decade after its inception41
Equitable pathways for sustainable tuna fisheries management in the Indian Ocean41
Resilience Strategies of Ports against Covid-19 in Terms of Chaos Theory40
From concept to practice: financing sustainable blue economy in Small Island Developing States, lessons learnt from the Seychelles experience40
Equitable sharing of deep-sea mining benefits: More questions than answers39
From global to human factors: Shipping emissions policy process in the IMO39
Technology and training: How will deck officers transition to operating autonomous and remote-controlled vessels?39
A systematic review of cultural ecosystem services of blue carbon ecosystems: Trends, gaps, and challenges in Asia and beyond39
From vulnerability to viability: A situational analysis of small-scale fisheries in Asia and Africa38
Windfarms, fishing and benthic recovery: Overlaps, risks and opportunities38
Challenges and prospects for teaching ocean literacy in Brazilian schools38
A flexible risk assessment framework for marine plastic pollution that synthesizes waste management and ecological impact data37
Centring justice for labour in the new blue economy: Principles for applying emerging evidence and theoretical critiques to policy and practice36
How narratives shape policy: Lessons learned from port projects adjacent to coral reefs in Florida and the Cayman Islands36
Challenges and conservation potential of shark-diving tourism in the Macaronesian archipelagos36
Over 30 years of monitoring and implementing the Bern Convention's recommendations for the protection of Mediterranean sea turtles36
Fragmented digital connectivity and security at sea35
Achieving coherence between the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive35
Informal norms sustain non-compliance and poaching among spearfishermen. A Response to Tudela et al. (2022)35
Ocean accounts as an approach to foster, monitor, and report progress towards sustainable development in a changing ocean – The Systems and Flows Model34
Perceptions of marine pollution when intertwined with displacement: The case of Miyakojima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan34
Oceanographic data management in Taiwan: An appraisal under the transnational legal ordering perspective34
Willingness to pay for the prevention of beach erosion in Korea: The case of Haeundae beach34
Developing the legal basis for non-state actors in China's ocean governance34
Editorial Board34
Management of local fisheries: A case study of Laoang, Northern Samar, Philippines34
Addressing the pollution control potential of marine spatial planning for shipping activity34
Operational oceanography as a distinct activity from marine scientific research under UNCLOS? – An analysis of WMO Resolution 45 (Cg-18)33
The BBNJ preamble: More than just window dressing33
Editorial Board33
Changing behavior: Can intervention design from the public health sector help solve the problem of fishing gear conflict?33
Fishers’ willingness to report incidental bycatches of endangered, threatened and protected fish species: The case of European sturgeon in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean33
Lyme Bay marine protected area: A governance analysis32
The tiered transaction system for sea use rights in China: Theoretical basis and market construction32
Introduction to a special issue on marine/maritime spatial planning32
Examining the role of human perceptions during cetacean stranding response in New Zealand32
Management Strategies Evaluation (MSE) in a mixed and multi-specific fishery based on indicator species: An example of small pelagic fish in Ecuador32
Editorial Board32
Associations of age, occupation and nationality of seafarers with risk of evacuations at sea: A register-based study on Danish-flagged merchant ships31
Applying life history traits to eco-labelling schemes for fisheries management: A case study in Taiwan31
Calling for institutional arrangements in Napoleon Wrasse conservation and management in Indonesia: The Anambas Islands case31
Beach management policy analysis concerning safety flag systems in Northern Spain30
Irregular migration and its impact on the marine environment: Legal aspects30
Legal assessment of BIMCO’s infectious or contagious diseases (IOCD) clauses for voyage and time charter parties30
Book review29
Port-based welfare services for seafarers in Chinese ports: Their roles, changes and challenges29
Editorial Board29
Editorial Board29
“Every fish in the sea is meat and so are guitarfishes”: Socio-economic drivers of a guitarfish fishery in Ghana29
How transparent are RFMOs? Achievements and challenges29
Book review28
Editorial Board28
Mapping the national blue economic system space: A case study of China28
The opening of cabotage: China’s trials and challenges28
How COVID-19 pandemic affected fisheries (catch volume and price): A case study in Europe27
Assessing areas suitable for offshore wind energy considering potential risk to breeding seabirds in northern Japan27
Economic consequences of the COVID'19 pandemic for functioning of the cruise shipping industry in the Baltic Sea Region27
Tasting the ocean: How to increase ocean literacy using seafood heritage with a visceral approach27
Towards non-entangling and biodegradable drifting fish aggregating devices – Baselines and transition in the world’s largest tuna purse seine fishery27
Sharks, tourism and conservation: a test of causative and mediating effects on scuba divers’ attitude27
Faroe Islands Fisheries in the Northeast Atlantic: Brexit, Russia, and economic incoherence26
Re-thinking recreational fishing – how a natural disaster presents insights and opportunities for achieving sustainability and equity objectives26
Identifying ecologically valuable marine areas to support conservation and spatial planning at scales relevant for decision making26
California’s lessons learned and recommendations for effective marine protected area network management26
Unambiguously defined and recognized seabed protection targets are necessary for successful implementation of MPAs26
Blue economy based on local DNA in Taiwan: Marine regional revitalisation under the collaboration of the local and central government26
Internationalization of EIA rules in the BBNJ Agreement: Impediments and possible solutions25
Fishing safely during COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: Making it happen25
COVID-19 impacts on coastal communities in Kenya25
The impact of natural capital loss on blue-tourism economy: The Red Sea case study25
The economics of deemed values25
Fishers’ perceptions of global change to inform coastal planning in a data-poor socio-ecological system25
The conundrum of sustainable fishery: fishers’ experiences of the exclusionary processes of the EU Common Fisheries Policy25
Implementing the Slow Fish curriculum for SDGs: Strategies, challenges, and policy suggestions through a case study25
Local practice of marine protected areas legislation in China: The case of Zhoushan25
Mapping the nautical carrying capacity of anchoring areas of the Balearic Islands’ coast25
Operationalisation of ecosystem services in support of ecosystem-based marine spatial planning: insights into needs and recommendations25
Fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experiences of Chinese seafarers25
Breaking Blue: Establishing comprehensive policy for a just and inclusive transition for the Blue Economy25
China’s marine eco-environment law enforcement from the perspective of the responsibility system: Dilemmas and solutions24
Exploring integration of land-sea interactions in maritime spatial planning in the Bulgarian context, Black Sea24
The closed fishing season policy in Ghana: Lessons from the coastal fisherfolk24
Sustainability and wealth creation, but no consensus: Recent decades in Iceland’s ITQ-managed fisheries24
A step closer to the convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001: China’s latest efforts in regulation24
Rejoinder to: Cochrane et al., Errors and bias in marine conservation and fisheries literature: Their impact on policies and perceptions [Mar. Policy 168 (2024) 106329]24
A contemporary analysis of policy implementation for the coastal mangrove forest management in Bangladesh Sundarbans24
India’s emerging undersea cable landscape: Varied Indo-Pacific partnerships to boost geopolitical ambitions?24
Editorial Board24
Effects of whale-watching activities on southern right whales in Encounter Bay, South Australia24
Regulation of the Caribbean red snapper fishery on the Amazon continental shelf: 60 years of conflict between conservation and exploitation24
Integrating resource-based and market-based views in the fisheries industry – CEO perspectives24
Evolution of support policies for the development of distant-water fishing bases in China: Review, performance, challenges and prospects24
Brexit and consequences for quota sharing in the Barents Sea cod fishery24
Integration of land and water resources, environmental characteristics, and aquaculture policy regulations into site selection using GIS based spatial decision support system24
Corrigendum to “Errors and bias in marine conservation and fisheries literature: Their impact on policies and perceptions” [Marine Policy 168 (2024) 10639]23
The ecological and socioeconomic implications of future total allowable catch decisions and illegal fishing scenarios for South Africa’s West Coast rock lobster fishery23
Supporting regional co-operation in the South China Sea with an initial assessment of the data-limited skipjack tuna fishery23
Impacts of COVID-19 on the finfish aquaculture industry of Bangladesh: A case study23
The vulnerability of fisheries-based livelihoods to climate variability and change in coastal small pelagic fishing communities in Tanzania23
Seychelles blue bond: Indebting ecological restructuring of fisheries23
Public preferences for coastal adaptation: Economic evidence from a discrete choice experiment for hard structures and nature-based solutions in Miami, Florida23
Gaps in legislation and communication identified as stakeholders reflect on 30×30 policy in Icelandic waters23
The artisanal octopus fishery in Mauritania: A lucrative fishery in decline23
Potential determinants affecting the growth of China’s ocean economy: An input-output structural decomposition analysis23
Spain: A pioneering country in the fight against the infringement of the international legal regime for fisheries23
Community importance-performance preferences and policy adaptiveness in marine debris management: A case study from the Komodo Subdistrict, Indonesia23
Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in Asia: Policy, law and practice23
Impact of fuel subsidies on bottom trawl fishery operation in China22
UNCLOS and its contributions to the development of international law: An editorial note22
Exploring barriers to the implementation of geospatial technologies in marine spatial planning: Reports from practitioners22
A review of small-scale marine fisheries in the United States: Definitions, scale, drivers of change, and policy gaps22
Participatory fisheries governance in Indonesia: Are octopus fisheries leading the way?22
Reducing marine litter pollution from anchored fish aggregating devices: Sicilian good practices and the legislative paradox22
Transitions from wild-caught fisheries to shellfish and seaweed aquaculture increase gender equity in Maine22
Sharing the waves: An exploration of surfer and shark interactions22
The impact of COVID-19 on maritime pilots: Evidence and lessons22
To ignore or mitigate – Economic implications of an illegal artisanal trawl fishery in northern Peru22
Understanding the link between climate change adaptation and household food security among shrimp farmers in Indonesia22
Conflicting governance realities: Aligning historical and cultural practices with formal marine protected area co-management in Senegal22
The MSC Fisheries Standard Review policy development process22
Uncertain, unstable and unequal: Can regime interaction help international fisheries law address anthropocene challenges?22
Port competitiveness: Do container terminal operators and liner shipping companies see eye to eye?22
An initial consideration of data availability issues in downscaling ocean accounting to inform sustainable aquaculture development: The example of Clew Bay, Ireland.22
Shipyard site selection by raster calculation method and AHP in GIS environment, İskenderun, Turkey21
Aligning fisheries terminology with diverse social benefits21
The human cost of global fishing21
The relationship between UNCLOS and Customary International Law: Some reflections21
Three centuries of marine governance in Indonesia: Path dependence impedes sustainability21
Introduction to the Marine Policy special issue on abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear: Causes, magnitude, impacts, mitigation methods and priorities for monitoring and evidence-informed manage21
Visualizing the annual transition of ocean policy in Japan using text mining21
The influence of new sustainable fisheries policies on seafood company practices and consumer awareness in Japan21
The development of China's fishery informatization and its impact on fishery economic efficiency21
The future of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands marine protected area in a changing environment: The choice between industrial fisheries, or ecosystem protection21
Does digital technology promote the sustainable development of the marine equipment manufacturing industry in China?21
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on fish trade and the coping strategies: An initial assessment from China’s perspective21
Price transmission during food safety incidents: The case of Spanish tuna fraud20
Hedonic evaluation of coral reef fish prices on a direct sale market20
Transparency in fisheries governance: Achievements to date and challenges ahead20
Sustainability status of the grouper fishery in the Azores archipelago: A length-based approach20
Linking social organization, attitudes, and stakeholder empowerment in MPA governance20
Strategic Environmental Assessment in marine spatial planning of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea – An implementation tool for an ecosystem-based approach?20
Utilising IPCC assessments to support the ecosystem approach to fisheries management within a warming Southern Ocean20
Informed selfishness – Practical reflections on building a sustainable ocean economy20
Editorial Board20
How do ecological protection policies affect the restriction of coastal development rights? Analysis of choice preference based on choice experiment20
Lessons learned for collaborative approaches to management when faced with diverse stakeholder groups in a rebuilding fishery20
Integrating cultural and natural heritage approaches to Marine Protected Areas in the MENA region20
Towards integrated modeling of the long-term impacts of oil spills19
BBNJ agreement in the purview of developing countries: A case study of Pakistan19
Effectively managing area-based management tools: A new toolkit for the conservation of marine mammals19
Scalar politics in transboundary fisheries management: The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission as an eco-scalar fix for South Pacific albacore tuna management19
Preliminary assessment of the impact of Covid-19 Pandemic in the small-scale and recreational fisheries of the Canary Islands19
Seafarers in fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic19
In the name of culture and sustainability: A Discourse-historical approach of Japan’s whaling policy19
Encouraging proactive governance of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction through Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)19
Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning19
The Baltic blue growth – A country-level shift-share analysis19
A review of migrant labour rights protection in distant water fishing in Taiwan: From laissez-faire to regulation and challenges behind19
Investigating public preferences for the management of native and invasive species in the context of kelp restoration19
Mapping fisheries value chains to facilitate their sustainability assessment: Case studies in The Gambia and Mali19
Has China's Free Trade Zone policy expedited port production and development?19
Shrimp up, fish down, and vice-versa: Fishers’ strategies and long-term changes in small-scale fisheries landings at two spatial levels in Southern Brazil19
Institutional barriers to integrated marine spatial planning on the island of Ireland18
Benchmarking ecosystem performance using index numbers: A case study of the northeast large marine ecosystem18
Evaluating annual severe coral bleaching risk for marine protected areas across Indonesia18
Social equity in shore-based fisheries: Identifying and understanding barriers to access18
Linking historical fishing pressure to biodiversity outcomes to predict spatial variation in Marine Protected Area performance18
Large-scale fisheries during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the oceangoing groundfish fleet in Norway18
Understanding residents’ policy preferences to construct effective marine debris governance policies18
Understanding core determinants in LNG bunkering port selection: Policy implications for the maritime industry18
Understanding vulnerability and sustainable livelihood factors from coastal residents in Taiwan18
Value chain of the data-poor Chinese bay scallop aquaculture18
Joint law enforcement mechanism with regard to underwater cultural heritage at sea led by China Coast Guard: Legislation and practice18
Human rights at sea: The limits of inter-state cooperation in addressing forced labour on fishing vessels18
Vulnerability assessment of Korean fisheries to climate change18
Multi-dimensional approaches to scaling up coral reef restoration18
Roles for advisory science in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)18
International advocacy and China’s distant water fisheries policies18
Implications of existing capacity building efforts for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction: A case study of Japan18
Making the most of what we already have: Activating UNCLOS to combat marine plastic pollution18
Towards a combined human-natural system approach in the Northern Red Sea Region: Ecological challenges, sustainable development, and community engagement18
The necessity of justice for a fair, legitimate, and effective treaty on plastic pollution18
Analysis of the influence of Japan's nuclear waste water release on South Korean fishery people from the perspective of news reports17
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) management and conservation schemes and their application in the Philippines17
Evaluating the economic impact of distant water fleet activities on small-scale fishers in the South China Sea17
The French procurement transformations: A historical perspective over sovereignty and innovation17
Shortfalls in the protection of Important Shark and Ray Areas undermine shark conservation efforts in the Central and South American Pacific17
Spatial restrictions inadvertently doubled the carbon footprint of Norway’s mackerel fishing fleet17
Shake it Off: Negotiations suspended, but hope simmering, after a lack of consensus at the fifth intergovernmental conference on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction17
Emergent geopolitical risks from fishing activities and past conflicts in the Pacific Ocean17
The economic sustainability of Italian aquaculture farms: Who has the potential to start the blue transition?17
Fisheries in flux: Bridging science and policy for climate-resilient management of US fisheries under distributional change17
On the provisions of the BBNJ Agreement addressing the impacts of climate change17
Indigenising the blue economy in Aotearoa New Zealand17
Passive acoustic monitoring for assessing marine mammals population in European waters: Workshop conclusions and perspectives17
Who is likely to have illegal eel products after the market regulations? A best-worst scaling approach17
An evidence-based review of the pre-requisite interventions for women's inclusion in the blue economy in the global south: A case study of India17
Differences in perceptions of COVID-19 risks in a fishing community in Alaska, 2020–202117
Performance indicators of the red grouper (Epinephelus morio) fishery along the Yucatan coast, Southeast Mexico17
Route optimization for vessels in ice: Investigating operational implications of the carbon intensity indicator regulation17
Financing decarbonization through wind-powered vessels17
Enjoy the darkness: Forsake partially nocturnal sets provides a good opportunity to improve profits and sustainability in the southern Brazil longline fishery17
The implications of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) in the South China Sea: A Chinese perspective17
Revealing the role of crab as bait in octopus fishery: An ecological and fishing approach to support management decisions17
Spatiotemporally explicit risk assessment of fishing grounds in Asian waters17
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale fisheries co-management: A case study of the unofficial landing records system in a Brazilian fishing community17
The climate advisory opinion: A medicine with side-effects?17
Stakeholders’ participation at the IMO marine environmental protection committee17
Analyzing the behavior of beachgoers in the city of Lima and their relationship with potential plastic emissions17
Better understanding ocean awareness: Insights from young people17
Legal barriers to adaptive coastal management at a coastal erosion hotspot in Florianópolis, Brazil16
Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area16
Short and long-term solutions for mitigating black carbon emissions in Arctic shipping: Implications for stakeholders16
Pescatourism’s contribution to the management effectiveness of the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of “Taza” (Algeria, Southwestern Mediterranean)16
A blue carbon ecosystems qualitative assessment applying the DPSIR framework: Local perspective of global benefits and contributions16
Monitoring biodiversity for the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Lessons learnt from evaluating the official reports16
Improving equitable access to seafood: A case study of a community-driven effort in South Central Los Angeles, California16
Capacity deficit and marginalisation of artisanal fishers hamper effective fisheries governance in Ghana: Insights and propositions for promoting sustainable small-scale fisheries16
Reassessing the management criteria of growing seal populations: The case of Baltic grey seal and coastal fishery16
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