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The Use of CITES for Commercially-exploited Fish Species

Part of the Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs Book Series (volume 35)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23702-2

ISBN: 978-3-319-23701-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 25, 2015

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Chapter 1Chapter 1 Introduction

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 1 –5

[The current situation of many commercially-exploited fish species is worrying with nearly 30 % of all stocks around the globe qualifying as overfished. In particular, the biomass of big predatory species, such as tunas, is severely reduced. As for collapsed stocks, for instance the cod in the...
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Chapter 2 Fishing Crisis and Aquaculture

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 9 –27

[Many stocks of commercially-exploited fishes are overexploited with collapse as a possible consequence, especially in the case of particularly vulnerable species. This is the overarching problem of today’s fisheries. While the validity of the most alarming reports is questioned by some, the...
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Chapter 3 Global and Regional Legal Regimes Dealing with Commercially-exploited Marine Species

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 29 –116

[Several sets of rules have been developed in international law, which are either directly meant to regulate fisheries or which can be used to do so. In some cases, institutions have also been established to coordinate and oversee their implementation by states. The relevant global and regional...
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Chapter 4 Structural and Governance Issues

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 117 –212

[The international governance of fisheries suffers from several structural deficiencies, in particular the lack of a clear framework as to the rights and obligations of states fishing on the high seas, the traditional problem of fragmentation, inadequate conservation and management measures as...
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Chapter 5 Protection of Commercially-exploited Fish Species Under CITES

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 215 –316

[In this chapter, after discussing the philosophies underlying CITES, the legality of listing fish species under CITES will be clarified, the adequacy of the regime for that purpose analyzed, and the effects as well as the potential contribution of using CITES towards effective governance of...
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Chapter 6 CITES Cooperation with Other Institutions in Relation to Commercially-exploited Fish Species

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 317 –376

[CITES has a tradition of cooperating with other institutions, be they international organizations, MEAs secretariats or NGOs. Currently, coherency and mutual supportiveness are the explicit focus of one of its Strategic Vision’s goal. Cooperation with biodiversity-related conventions has even...
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Chapter 7 Desirability of Using CITES

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 379 –384

[While some states have expressed that CITES is not the right forum for fisheries and hence tried to exclude commercially-exploited fish species from its mandate, or at least to reduce the options to use this regime to the cases where a management regime is absent, nothing in the Convention can...
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Chapter 8 Recommendations

Guggisberg, Solène

Pages: 385 –395

[In general, a proposal only has chances to succeed if enough political will is present. Even if the required qualified majority is reached, if the fishing states and main importing states are not on board, the regime will suffer, at worst from reservations and at best from unwilling and hence...

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