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Climate Change and Global Fisheries Management: Linking Issues to Protect Ecosystems or to Save Political Interests?

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  • Mark Axelrod

    (Mark Axelrod is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in James Madison College and the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife. His statistical test of the “chilling effect” hypothesis is forthcoming in Institutional Interplay and Global Environmental Change: State of the Art and Perspectives (2011). Other recent work on electronic waste regulation is published in Criminology and Public Policy (2010) and forthcoming in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice.)

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This article explores the conditions under which regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) adopt climate actions. I test a series of hypotheses to explain when RFMOs move beyond their classic management approaches—assignment of property rights, catch limits, and gear restrictions—to include climate change in their research and management plans. I introduce a new data set that compares fisheries-climate linkages since 1992 in all available RFMO annual reports and meeting minutes. The analysis reveals a series of patterns surrounding linkage politics in RFMOs. Importantly, this study finds that climate linkages in RFMOs do not simply follow scientific knowledge or regional climate vulnerability. Instead, climate action coincides with member country efforts to avoid catch regulations, and secretariat efforts to exhibit organizational relevance. © 2011 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Mark Axelrod, 2011. "Climate Change and Global Fisheries Management: Linking Issues to Protect Ecosystems or to Save Political Interests?," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 11(3), pages 64-84, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:11:y:2011:i:3:p:64-84
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    1. Rakhyun Kim & Brendan Mackey, 2014. "International environmental law as a complex adaptive system," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 5-24, March.
    2. Mark Axelrod, 2017. "Blocking change: facing the drag of status quo fisheries institutions," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 17(4), pages 573-588, August.
    3. Brian Pentz & Nicole Klenk, 2020. "Understanding the limitations of current RFMO climate change adaptation strategies: the case of the IATTC and the Eastern Pacific Ocean," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 21-39, March.
    4. Melissa Marschke & Ouk Lykhim & Nong Kim, 2014. "Can Local Institutions Help Sustain Livelihoods in an Era of Fish Declines and Persistent Environmental Change? A Cambodian Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 6(5), pages 1-16, April.
    5. Nina Hall, 2015. "Money or Mandate? Why International Organizations Engage with the Climate Change Regime," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 15(2), pages 79-97, May.

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