The security implications of fisheries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3671277
AutoresElizabeth R Desombre (0000-0003-0647-1869, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen95
Número5
Páginas1019-1035
Fecha de publicación2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ia/iiz140
OpenAlexW2963804277
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

Although frequently ignored in discussion of ocean security, fisheries have had central security implications throughout history. This article re-centres fisheries issues as both a cause and effect of security conflicts, and examines the implications of this re-framing for addressing this intersection. Underlying the security concerns that arise related to fisheries is depletion of global fish stocks. When stocks are overfished or not well managed, fishing vessels move to other areas, where they are more likely to come into conflict with each other and to threaten vulnerable stocks that some populations rely on, and states will claim or defend more ocean territory. These issues are explored here with four sets of security crises that can be best understood by examining the underlying or contributing aspect of fishery depletion: conflicts over sovereignty of small maritime islands, the rise of Somali maritime piracy, the 'fish wars' between otherwise friendly states in the middle and latter parts of the twentieth century, and the human insecurity represented by slavery-like conditions aboard some fishing vessels. Understanding the security implications of fisheries grants new reason and new approaches-ideally multi-jurisdictional, transnational and focused on capacity-building-to better protect fisheries and prevent security threats

Business · Fish stock · Fishery · Fishing · Framing (construction) · Geography · Political science · Politics · Somali · Sovereignty · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Maritime Security and History