There is overwhelming evidence that many local-scale human activities (e.g. fishing) have a deleterious effect on coral reef fish assemblages. Our understanding of how broad social phenomena (e.g. socioeconomic development) affect the diversity and function of coral reef fish assemblages however, is still poor. Here, we use structural equation models to reveal how human population density, soci...

There is a growing focus around the world on marine spatial planning, including spatial fisheries management. Some spatial management approaches are quite blunt, as when marine protected areas (MPAs) are established to restrict fishing in specific locations. Other management tools, such as zoning or spatial user rights, will affect the distribution of fishing effort in a more nuanced manner. Co...

In this paper I evaluate the merit of costly signaling theory (CST) as a paradigm for understanding why men of Ifaluk atoll torch fish. I argue that torch fishing is a handicap that signals men’s productivity. Consistent with CST, torch fishing is observed by the predicted audience (women), energetically costly to perform, and a reliable indicator of the frequency a man fishes during the trade ...

This article is written around the time a Dutch court ordered corporate group Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 2030. The aim of contribute conceptualisation phenomenon this judgement unveils in terms greening human rights litigation supported United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). It addresses, firstly, how claiming protection Earth before courts occurring h...

Article history: Received 14 September 2005 Received in revised form 10 December 2005 Accepted 19 December 2005 Available online 14 February 2006 There has been a growing concern about the interactions of endangered sea turtles with the pelagic longline fishery in Hawaii recently. Some tough measures including a swordfish harvest ban have been put into effect since 2000 to protect these turtles...

There are two diverging views of the status and future of the world's fisheries. One group represented largely by academic marine ecologists sees almost universal failure of fisheries management and calls for the use of marine-protected areas as the central tool of a new approach to rebuilding the marine ecosystems of the world. The scientists working in fisheries agencies and many academic sci...

Apprentice programs offer a method to encourage responsible individual behavior by laying the foundation for successful collective property rights. Apprenticeship has three purposes: to restrict the rate of entry, to affect the quality of the participant, and to create the conditions for collective action for sustainability. Apprenticeship could be an important fishery management tool, particul...

The non utilization of fishing management techniques in the Amazônia has many causes such as land tenure instability, inadequate legislation and public policies, the advance of cattle ranching over the floodplains and lack of adequate credit and incentives. Amongst the effects caused by this problem we find the alteration of the ecological process in the floodplains, a decrease in some fish sto...