Chinese fisheries enforcement: Environmental and strategic implications

Goldstein, Lyle J.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.007

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“…In most recent years, China has taken concrete steps in some aspects to improve marine fishery law enforcement such as combating illegal fishing and reducing fuel subsidies (Goldstein, 2013). In March 2013, China set up the new Coast Guard with better equipment and vessels (Li and Amer, 2015).…”

Section: Weak Domestic Policy Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 99%

China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

Zhang

2017

Global Policy

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This paper first examines two most significant structural shifts in China's marine fishery sector in the past decades, namely, expanding outward and going after high market value species. It then explains how domestic policies and development strategies have shaped the trajectory of China's marine fishery sector, and analyzes the obstacles rooted in both domestic socio‐political settings and global governance that have impeded policy reform and effective enforcement in China to ensure marine sustainability and international cooperation. Lastly, the paper explores possible options for transnational advocacy actors that are concerned with the global impact of China's growing fisheries.

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Section: Weak Domestic Policy Enforcementmentioning

confidence: 99%

China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

Zhang

2017

Global Policy

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“…Current fisheries in the Bohai Sea are mainly composed of crustacean and mollusc, also suggesting another possible structural shift in recent years. Although the government has implemented a series of policies to boost the collapsed fisheries, there are still no obvious signs of recovery (Goldstein 2013). Top predator growth and recruitment can be negatively affected by predation on eggs and larvae of predators, competition for zooplankton prey, and size-dependent growth .…”

Section: Fish Community Shiftsmentioning

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Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

Zhang

2015

Ambio

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Regime shift often results in large, abrupt, and persistent changes in the provision of ecosystem services and can therefore have significant impacts on human wellbeing. Understanding regime shifts has profound implications for ecosystem recovery and management. China's coastal ecosystems have experienced substantial deterioration within the past decades, at a scale and speed the world has never seen before. Yet, information about this coastal ecosystem change from a dynamics perspective is quite limited. In this review, I synthesize existing information on coastal ecosystem regime shifts in China and discuss their interactions and cascading effects. The accumulation of regime shifts in China's coastal ecosystems suggests that the desired system resilience has been profoundly eroded, increasing the potential of abrupt shifts to undesirable states at a larger scale, especially given multiple escalating pressures. Policy and management strategies need to incorporate resilience approaches in order to cope with future challenges and avoid major losses in China's coastal ecosystem services.

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“…Currently, China's energy security is further maintained by its reliance on coal, which accounts for 66% of consumption (U.S. Energy Information Administration 2012), raising questions about the immediate need for aggressive behavior in pursuit of oil within the disputed area. Fish stocks in the area are known to be over exploited, and China's ability to manage and enforce regulations over these currently suffers from a lack of institutional coordination (Goldstein 2013). This, combined with the nature of the fisheries as highly migratory and vulnerable to changes in the ecosystem (Wang 2001, 534-536 & 539-541), means that China stands to gain more from fisheries within a cooperative environment which allows for the careful monitoring of fish stocks.…”

Section: International Relations Theory and The South China Seamentioning

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Constructing Cooperation: Chinese Ontological Security Seeking in the South China Sea Dispute

Curtis¹

2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Chinese actions regarding disputes in the South China Sea have varied between complacence, use of force, and active engagement in attempts to forge cooperative relationships with disputant nations. In this paper, I argue that analysis of China's actions centered on the material and strategic importance of the Sea does not adequately account for the broad changes in China's behavior. Instead, I apply the theory of Ontological Security, arguing that changes in China's behavior in the dispute can best be explained as an attempt by China to maintain security of its national identity. In particular, I argue that China's historical understanding of its self, the expectations that arise from this, and the alignment of South East Asian state's actions with these expectations, inform China's attitude and actions in the dispute.

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Chinese fisheries enforcement: Environmental and strategic implications

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

China's Marine Fishery and Global Ocean Governance

Regime shifts and resilience in China’s coastal ecosystems

Constructing Cooperation: Chinese Ontological Security Seeking in the South China Sea Dispute

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