Regional Fisheries Management Organizations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Regional Fisheries Management Organizations: Are They Effective?

   • Leandra R. Gonçalves

   Pages 1-19

3. CCAMLR: To Be or Not To Be an RFMO?

   • Leandra R. Gonçalves

   Pages 21-38

4. ICCAT and the Cooperation for Eastern Bluefin Tuna Management

   • Leandra R. Gonçalves

   Pages 39-60

5. CCSBT and the Management of Southern Bluefin Tuna

   • Leandra R. Gonçalves

   Pages 61-77

6. Back Matter

   Pages 79-116

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This book analyzes empirical data from three specific Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) designed to establish rules for the conservation and management of fish stocks in the ocean, in order to assess their effectiveness in converting science into policy for the recovery and maintenance of fishery populations. The three RFMOs discussed are the CCAMLR (Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources), the ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) and the CCSBT (Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna). The book seeks to understand when governments choose to listen to science, and establishes a framework to examine the institutional designs currently in place to accommodate RFMO policy suggestions and the conditions under which they are implemented successfully. The study will be of interest to academics and professionals broadly interested in global environmental governance and international relations, and will specifically appeal to policymakers, conservationists, and environmental researchers interested in fishery management and policy at the global and regional scale. 

Gonçalves provides an accessible and comprehensive analysis of RMFOs. She offers valuable insights into the role of science and politics in shaping sustainable fisheries policies for the open oceans. 
---Peter M Haas, Professor Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

As envisaged by the UN Decade of Ocean proclamation, this book is an important and sincere effort, hopefully to be accompanied by many others to come during this promising decade, that will help to build a common framework to ensure that ocean science can support countries and the international community in creating improved conditions for the sustainable development of our cherished Ocean.
---Fabio H. Hazin - Professor at Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil

• Fishery governance
• RFMO
• Marine living resources
• Fishery conservation
• Bluefin tuna
• Exclusive economic zones
• Fish and Wildlife Biology
• water policy

• Praça do Oceanográfico, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  Leandra R. Gonçalves

Dr. Leandra R. Gonçalves is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sao Paulo in the Oceanographic Institute.